2-Stage Oscillators and the Quest for “Free Energy”
It may not look like much, but Serbian scientist and inventor Veljko Milkovic will tell you that under ideal conditions his two-stage mechanical oscillator will produce twelve times more energy at the business end of the machine than what is required at the input side of it.
[After spending several days reading the documents and opinions, watching the videos, and making myself comfortable with the material I link to below, I was sufficiently convinced that the 2-stage oscillator was—at the very least—something CleanTechnica's readers would find interesting. I welcome your comments and critique, because that is how science progresses -TBH]
Simply put, the two-stage oscillator consists of a lever and a pendulum: two machines that perform work individually. Milkovic and others claim that when these two machines are combined, assembled with the proper weight distribution, and properly synchronized, Centrifugal and Gravitational forces operate in concert to produce energy gains bordering on the astonishing.
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“This certainly ranks as one of the most important discoveries in science in the last 300 years,” said Peter Lindemann, who suggests the twelve-fold increase in power at the output end (pdf) appears to violate Newton’s Third Law of Motion: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Once the optimal speed has been reached by the swinging pendulum, Milkovic postulates that very little energy is required to maintain it.
Greatest impact could be in developing world
There have been several iterations of the Milkovic design and it is argued that the mechanism could be used in automatic hammers, transmissions, motors, pumps and more. In theory, the design could be scaled up to handle much larger amounts of energy — even utility scale.
But one of the most viable and “shovel-ready” applications of the mechanism is in manual water pumps. Widespread diffusion of appropriate technologies like Milkovic’s two-stage oscillating pump could have important implications in parts of the world where manually pumping water is a fact of daily life. (Watch a video of a water pump with two-stage oscillator).
The search for perpetual motion machines and “free energy” has occupied the minds of mechanical engineers for as long as there have been mechanical engineers. And while there have been the standard methodological challenges to the accuracy of certain measurement tools and protocols used to study the two-stage mechanical oscillator, Milkovic’s design has yet-to-be understood implications for a world with constantly-growing energy needs.
Images: VeljkoMilkovic.com
It’s a perpetual motion machine. It can’t possibly work.
That doesn’t stop people from making impossible claims every now and then, but that doesn’t mean anyone has to listen.
Just when this site starts looking credible, you go and publish a story like this. What’s next, crystal pyramids? There are plenty of places on the web to go find crap like this for those who are interested — this shouldn’t be one of them.
Sham science.
No science, sham only.
Force != Energy
Is it better than breaking your back over a standard lever pump? Probably.
Is it free energy? No.
So it violates the conservation of energy? Apparently I should be taking the articles published here less seriously…
I find myself not entirely convinced by a man who wrote this .
It’s disappointing that CleanTechnica includes an author who would report, with such breathless enthusiasm, yet another device that violates the First Law of thermo. Shouldn’t he give scientific/engineering claims at least a basic check, or even recognize the problem himself? “This certainly ranks as one of the most important discoveries in science in the last 300 years” and it doesn’t occur to him to run it past an independent expert?
Yes, this makes me question whether this site as a whole has any credibility. Evidently they’ll publish any claim, no matter how bogus. Pity, that.
The mechanism is simple and ingenious. I have been to Serbia, visited with Veljko, and seen his machines with my own eyes!
In short, no single motion, taken by itself, violates Newton’s Third Law. It is the complex interaction that creates the apparent “de-coupling” of forces in the aggregate. In this way, the force vector in the machine providing the “work” stroke is applied against the force vector produced by the centrifugal force provided by the SWING of the pendulum. The energy extracted by the “work” stroke does not damp the swing of the pendulum DIRECTLY, but only provides the equivalent of a “parasitic oscillation” (a small displacement of the pivot point) that damps the pendulum INDIRECTLY, and only partially. Since the the “input” to the system is merely to keep the pendulum swinging, most of this energy is conserved, while the centrifugal force produced by the swing does all the work at the “output” end.
Believe what you will, but the machine behaves as reported by Mr. Hurst.
I’ve looked at the device and have concluded it works.
For those who doubt, remember there is much we do not know about inertia, zero point energy and why all heavenly bodies are spherical in shape, v.s. say square or cone shaped…. sic.