Write a complete input-to-output diagram for the proposed mechanism and identify every energy source.
500 Queens / Gravity Power
Gravity Power
Treat gravity as a possible energy-storage mechanism, with every input and loss counted.
Follow the connections. Choose your direction.
The need worth working on.
The title Gravity Power can be misunderstood as energy without an input. This proposal should instead define a storage or mechanical process in which energy enters, is held and is later recovered. A good first study makes the accounting visible and asks whether the service is useful compared with alternatives.
What the enterprise could offer.
Build a transparent model of a specified lifting, lowering or water-based storage system for a defined load. Compare it with other storage methods using the same duration, power and maintenance assumptions. If a physical demonstration is worthwhile, it should be a controlled educational model designed by competent people, not a claim of free energy.
People to build with
- Energy-system learners
- Storage researchers
- Facility operators comparing options
An energy-accounting demonstrator
Model a small storage duty using documented component assumptions and explicit losses.
Compare the result with pumped water storage, batteries or demand shifting for the same service.
Have an independent engineer review the accounting and specify any safe demonstrator that would add evidence.
The first result
A checked energy balance, comparison model and a clear explanation of the proposed storage service.
What needs to be demonstrated.
Engineering development
The starting evidence
The archive supplies a broad title, not a self-powered machine or a proven new storage system.
The open question
Whether the proposed geometry and machinery can deliver a useful storage service at competitive whole-life cost.
The next measurement
Energy returned relative to energy supplied, useful power duration and service interruptions.
Build the means to deliver.
Useful capabilities and resources
- Mechanical and electrical review
- Complete energy accounting
- A defined customer duty cycle
A possible business model
Education, technical evaluation or a component service may be possible. Commercial storage requires a separately validated design and customer need.
A leadership decision to practise
Reject any business claim that leaves its energy input or operating losses unexplained.
People, consequences and decisions.
- A partial calculation can suggest impossible performance.
- Moving masses require careful mechanical design.
- Civil works and maintenance may overwhelm small-scale benefits.
If equality were being designed now...
- Who would control the stored energy and decide which household, care or business needs it serves?
- Could women maintaining the system shape lifting machinery, controls and recovery arrangements from the start?
Begin with women's own experiences across bodies, ages, cultures and places. Invite disagreement and choose a practical change together.
Create a women-led design brief →Build your learning council.
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Practical pilot
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From the original suggestion to a working brief.
Original concept from 500 Queens VC NEW Long, slide 15; current context from the September 2026 planning document. This expanded brief and pilot are proposed development, not evidence of an operating enterprise or confirmed partnership.
Original title: Gravity Power. The pilot, business model and learning connections on this page are proposed developments of that original idea.