Re: [math-fun] 11,373,076:1 gear train

Or, more likely, the teeth will be stripped off the final gears.   --  Gene From: rwg <rwg@sdf.org> To: Richard Fateman <fateman@berkeley.edu> Cc: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] 11,373,076:1 gear train On 2015-07-07 14:26, Richard Fateman wrote:

There is a gear train in the SF exploratorium with a motor going 200rpm on one end and the far end has a gear embedded in concrete.  The last gear will rotate once in, what,  a trillion years... RJF How many megatons if it actually stored all the energy from that motor?

http://www.exploratorium.edu/arts/works/machine-concrete emanating from http://www.chadweisshaar.com/blog/2013/03/26/trip-to-boston/ --rwg