Taurozzi Pendulum Engine - It's features and Flaws - See Pinned Comment.

This is a really great video on why SOME or indeed many great ideas, in ways are fantastic ideas, but their benefits are outweighed by their deficits....

It's good to think things through and to also be learning from others, who know better and have done the research and have the facts to rely upon as to why this is an unworkable overall solution.

Kind of like armor plated aircraft - making a 5 ton aircraft covered with 5 tons of steel plate...