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Conservation of energy.

Asked by JMCSD (243points) March 19th, 2008 from iPhone

Visualize this, a long pole sticking out of the ground on a rotating base, at an angle of let’s say 20–30 degrees. Now imagine a heavy weight hanging off the side at a reasonable good distance attached by a stiff connection. Ok, so if you were to take the entire body of this shaft and layer it with generators that converts the rotation into power, and let the weight hanging off be affected by gravity, why would there be no multiplication in energy output because of the multiple generators? Ps. Sorry if once all said and done this makes no sense.

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