The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines

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Bad ideas come and go in physics. But there’s one bit of nonsense that is perhaps more persistent than all others: the perpetual motion machine. No working perpetual motion machine has ever been experiment verified. All break the laws of thermodynamics. In fact, we classify based on WHICH law of thermodynamics they break. We have perpetual motion machines of the first kind - they violate energy conservation - they pump more energy out than they need to keep running. This includes most of the historical devices. Then there are machines of the second kind - they’re a bit more subtle in their wrongness because break the second law of thermodynamics - extracting energy by reversing entropy. Many modern “free-energy” devices fall into this category. Now the best modern designs are by you - answers to our recent challenge question, which we’ll get to at the end. But first let’s take a look at examples of what other people came up with - this’ll be a fun little journey through some pretty terrible science.
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Designing a perpetual motion machine has a very long history and became quite the craze from the middle ages through the renaissance. The first well-documented design for a perpetual motion machine was from the 12th century. Bhāskara's wheel, named after the Indian mathematician, was embedded with tubes of mercury that would flow from back and forth as the wheel turned. Other types of over-balance wheels followed through to the Renaissance and worked on the same principle. There were also designs that employed the magical-seeming lodestones - magnets. For example, this ramp in which a ball is pulled to the top by a magnet before falling through a hole and rolling to the bottom again. Then there are the self-pumping waterwheels or self-blowing windmills.
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[@jaysonfred8313]

You want infinite energy? Just place down a redstone block smh.

[@spotsindude4045]

YUP 😂

[@markcharles5947]

This joke is underrated

[@Kolusify]

I rather plant trees, turn them into charcoal, create a machine that will plant trees for me, make more charcoal, then make a machine that will cut trees for me, get infnite charcoal, then get a machine that will burn trees for me for charcoal. FREE INFINITE CHARCOAL! Perputum Charcoulum.

[@petercarioscia9189]

Only 13 block range though. Or 7? I forget.

[@rechtebanana]

@@Kolusify but this works in real life, it's not even perpetual motion because trees gather energy from the sun

[@-james-8343]

“Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this” he’s becoming self aware

[@alex95s7]

-James- vary niiiiiice

[@nil981]

Quantum mechanics forbids a lot of things...like time travel and by extension, faster than light travel!

[@mps2209]

It also forbids people to learn more about itself

[@tothass666]

Good meme

[@TheRealFlenuan]

I came to comment this

[@thefekete]

The hardest part about designing a perpetual motion machine is figuring out how to hide the battery ~ electro boom

[@greenstargin5321]

How many times have you reposted that quote, I see it on everything related

[@flightcffaux22]

Veeeerrryyyy original

[@QuicksGG]

I believe electroboom said this

[@Justthemow]

And living long enough to prove it will last forever

[@Bolt_Chaser]

The hardest part of writing a KZbin comment is figuring out whose quote to use

[@quimicoz]

The way I see it, we should build a Perpetual motion machine of the 5th kind. If it succeds, we have a perpetually working machine. If it fails, we discovered the 5th law of thermodynamics. It is a win-win enterprise.

[@user-pr6ed3ri2k]

lol

[@tone618]

that's complete bogus but very funny and clever and almost makes sense

[@adamdecoder1]

@@tone618 Damn you're right. Almost like it was a joke

[@supremacy9097]

this whole comment is in fact a perpetual idea... super clever :D

[@johncochran8497]

The three laws.... 1. You can't win. 2. You can't even break even .... Unless it's an extremely cold day. 3. It can't get that cold.

[@cezarcatalin1406]

John Cochran 4. But...

[@sugarfrosted2005]

Zeroeth, all losing is the same.

[@onebronx]

@@cezarcatalin1406 5. ... ah, nevermind, it can't work too.

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

There's a joke in here where it's cold enough you can win but you can't get hard, so you still can't win.

[@medexamtoolsdotcom]

I thought the 3rd law was just that the entropy of a pure perfect crystal at absolute 0 is 0, not that absolute 0 is unattainable.

[@francescoghizzo]

"Lisa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" (my favourite quote from the Simpsons)

[@koenvandamme6901]

"It just keeps going faster and faster!"

[@uss_04]

Jackie Chan i know rite. Same.

[@xdragon2k]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYCwmpWubZxpd5Y

[@ugoeze7360]

Francesco Ghizzo you beat me to it!!

[@CanadaBud23]

Disobeying the laws of thermodynamics?! That's a paddling.

[@colingianella7172]

To set something permanently spinning, simply strap a slice of bread and jam, which we all know will land jam side down, to a cat’s back which we all know always falls paws down therefore two opposing forces fighting each other for superiority. I found through experimentation that apricot jam works best especially when strapped to a Siamese cat.

[@nebulisnoobis102]

I remember that ad. It was hilarious.

[@luiscca9315]

lol

[@ronfarrar3001]

The fun part that gets looked over is efficiency.. the energy gradient of the modern car compared to the first internal combustion engine is so vastly different is like watching gravity driven power compared to the space shuttle. I'm amazed at how they do not fire up imaginations with the challenge to build things that take much less to perform better

[@miguelfernandes2760]

Totally agree. Was thinking the same as i was watching.

[@nathanwahl9224]

You can approach an efficiency of unity by getting closer and closer. Going beyond unity to actually get anything out of it isn't natural, sorry, won't ever happen.

[@sayamqazi]

@@nathanwahl9224 To add to the injury further It is actually proven that you cant even "reach" unity.

[@davelowets]

@@sayamqazi No kidding... That would be called a "perpetual motion" device, and we all KNOW that's not possible

[@randycarroll-bradd4894]

Yeah, the modern ICE car has gotten all the way up to somewhere between 25% and 35% efficient at turning gasoline energy into motion. Not bad for nearly 150 years of refinement.

[@mikemondano3624]

The Laws of Thermodynamics: 1.) You can't win or lose. You can only break even. 2.) You can't break even except at Absolute Zero. 3.) You can't get to Absolute Zero.

[@nziom]

They're the reason why everyone and everything will die

[@vinnytaranova6163]

So you're saying that my ex-wife's heart would work just fine.

[@ethanstump]

.... inside the universe. maybe after heat death something could be arranged.

[@crateer]

4.) U dumb

[@ZeHoSmusician]

@@crateer 5.) I think you might have missed the point...

[@garryblofeld7467]

I was going to buy a perpetual motion machine last week,but it only had a six month warranty.

[@se6586]

They used to have lifetime warranties back in my day

[@Pet_Hedgehog]

lmao so subtle yet so good

[@jaroslavfridrich6158]

If you want, i sell you one clearly magnetic perpetuum machine. It´s easy and fully working device. I show you this, you can buy it. But idea is not cheap. Do you want it?

[@danielrichardson6068]

THAT WAS VERY FUNNY! LMPMMO

[@johnbash-on-ger]

LOL

[@robertpearson8798]

The quest for a perpetual motion machine is itself a perpetual motion machine.

[@blacksmith2479]

What if the real perpetual motion machine was the friends we made along the way?

[@DarkFox2232]

Human stupidity will run for as long as there are humans.

[@saiganeshmanda4904]

At 3:03, you saying "inventors just graduated to instead breaking the 2nd law of thermodynamics" sounded to me way funnier than it should have...😂

[@ikemanreed]

Perpetual motion machines seem to be perpetual in the sense that people keep trying to make them

[@Shmynkellbonkenstein]

You just solved the riddle

[@oldboy5001]

lol.

[@superdutchskills492]

But no one was successfull so they aren't perpetual?

[@ikemanreed]

see you later it won’t work

[@abbasahmedlp]

Surprised pikachu face

[@holo_nside]

Fell asleep to this. Phone fell off my bed and I woke up to "actually, quantum mechanics forbids this"

[@johnmorrell3187]

A cold dose of a cruel reality with no wizards

[@MalibuMAXX05]

r/thathappened (funny concept tho)

[@V01DG0D]

$100% verified

[@HeliFlightRCU]

Lol

[@CommackMark]

Im at work at devising a machine to capture the energies.... heat... mechanical.... etc.... released from a lying politician's mouth. One great part about this approach is the degree of freedom afforded the user in selecting which politician they want to hook up to the device. Once I complete the prototype I intend to test. Though I still have some engineering challenges to overcome..... in principle I am very optimistic that I will have created a perpetual motion machine that greatly exceeds in energy output compared to any energy input required. Will keep everyone posted on my progress.

[@tone618]

lol

[@ubaldomaldonado9347]

Todos dan por sentado, la validez de que la energía no se puede obtener y eso Puede Ser Refutado y cuando eso Suceda la Ley de la Termodinámica será obsoleta!!!! Mientras Tanto, Gocen de Su Ley y dejen de probar!!! Yo prefiero pensar QUE SE PUEDE!!!!

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

my dad used to try to make these. He usually used magnets facing in opposite directions so they push apart

[@nyneshpanchal7711]

Basically a free energy device, not a perpetual motion machine

[@ashscott6068]

@@nyneshpanchal7711 Neither. Just a wheel with magnets on

[@dimitrikrotchlikmeoff1953]

@@ashscott6068 you just ended his dads career

[@Canadian_Hospitality]

@@nyneshpanchal7711 it’s not free energy though, magnets have finite energy.

[@monkey3964]

@@Canadian_Hospitality racist

[@SprDrumio64]

There is one thing that is perpetual tho: people trying to create a perpetual motion machine lol

[@unvergebeneid]

Maybe if you string a bunch of these people to a wheel... 🤔 Can't be sure if it'd work, only one way to find out!

[@jimsimpson2820]

No its not, that violates physics

[@Sausager]

@@jimsimpson2820 ? It's a joke

[@Wraught]

@@Sausager If we could only harness the energy of people not getting jokes, we'd be set for life.

[@death_parade]

Nah. Those people are just a waste of Exergy. . P.S. Yes i spelt that exergy and not energy, for a reason.

[@CeriusDeluge]

I have been working on a perpetual motion machine for years now. I know it's impossible but for some reason I can't seem to stop.

[@judah9626]

I can help I found out some new susbtances we can do

[@Nugcon]

I guess you can your struggle is perpetual

[@MouseGoat]

@@Nugcon I believe that was indeed the joke ^^

[@coleschemistrychannel4172]

Nekogami-Crystal Thanks, I didn’t get it.

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

@@judah9626 can you do hypermeth then

[@Gemini-Lion]

I’m fairly certain that if a perpetual motion machine was ever created somehow, it would probably just function as an inefficient battery.

[@ghaldurinanubios4290]

If it moved fast enough, and was bigger with a couple more next to it, it'd make a good generator for a house.

[@quacking.duck.3243]

Planetary orbits are a sort of battery. You could in theory sap angular momentum from them to power something else.

[@Gemini-Lion]

@@ghaldurinanubios4290 But where would the energy come from? When I posted this comment, I was thinking it would essentially act as a kinetic energy battery. That kinetic energy would then be possible to turn into heat and electricity. That electricity could then be used for a bunch of stuff

[@sayamqazi]

@@Gemini-Lion put a ring like track around earth, put a car on it. attach the moon to the car's roof with a "STRONG" string and you have forever running car. Well for a few million years forever.

[@TimeSquareTitts]

I like this channel's calm rational examination of these things. The middle ground between hype and skepticism .

[@oslier3633]

In this house we obey the law of THERMODYNAMICS

[@sumsarsiranen]

The simpsons

[@staberas]

SHUT UP MOM, LAWS ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN

[@SandeepSingh-we7qb]

Stolen

[@ThaFashionAssassin]

The Simpsons did it!

[@fetts4ck849]

Do you think we care about laws? We dont even care about THE LAWS OF PHYSICS! *jumps off building into haycart*

[@PilifXD]

6:52 He is aware of the meme 😂

[@MalekiRe]

What meme?

[@Ferroes]

Look up Quantum Mechanics Forbids This in r/DankMemes

[@MalekiRe]

iron saad Just did, thanks.

[@KrapTacu1ar]

Actually, Quantum Mechanics forbids this

[@beretperson]

@@MalekiRe him saying "Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this" was a bit of a meme not long ago.

[@JackDesert]

I thought I had created something that could generate energy. But years later after my prototype got smashed at the school fair, I looked into it and realized that the excess coil of wire was using heat from the sun where I had set up to create more energy like a solar panel could. i was so excited for a long time after busting a few bulbs thorugh excess energy generation. Now I realized I was creating a loop of electricity through infrared. But you coudln't convinced me of that when I was just 13 years old.

[@Helperbot-2000]

Thats still pretty cool tho!

[@zednam2110]

I love your work, featuring other people's work.

[@Mryoyo1600]

1. Get a cat, hold upside down. 2. Attached piece of toast to cat's back, butter side out. 3. Drop cat-toast. 4. Cat will always land on its feet, toast will always land butter side up, cat-toast never touches ground spinning endlessly. 5. Attach generator. 6. Enjoy infinite energy.

[@greenheroes]

what about toasts with nothing on them... will they land on the darker or the lighter side of the roasted bread (my hypothesis is it land on the lighter side/it doesn't matter enough to change it's gravitationnal pattern, in order to fall on the heavier side)

[@Fsilone]

7. Newton starts turning in his grave. 8. Attach generator to turning Newton. 9. Enjoy more free energy.

[@gravyboat2370]

Genius

[@Phobos_Anomaly]

Butter side down, actually. But you get the basic idea.

[@lucklord7]

10. Tesla starts celebrating free energy in his grave 11. Call the Ghostbusters

[@livintolearn7053]

8:05 That's no villain bro. That's ElectroBOOM, the Rectifier! He's on our team.

[@NoahSpurrier]

Livin' to Learn If you look in the upper right corner of the clip you will see that there is thanks and credit given. It would have been impossible not to realize the source video was itself also debunking perpetual motion.

[@ihorvoronchak8191]

“Never believe everything you see on the internet.” -Galileo

[@prashantjoshi1604]

lmao😂😂😂😂😂internet wasn't there that time .... Now u will say dont believe in that😂

[@ihorvoronchak8191]

R/whoooosh

[@tonyinfinity]

@@prashantjoshi1604 Thanks Captain Obvious. You must be entertaining to be around at a comedy show

[@prashantjoshi1604]

@@tonyinfinity 😂😂no my surrounding one has a much great sense than me...so they gives savage replies to them too..

[@joesands8860]

I remember being about 15 years old (1983) drawing out my blueprints for a perpetual motion wheel using electric magnets and whatever else I could find in my Grandfather's garage. I actually thought I was onto something. This was well before the internet was around to show me how little I knew about basically EVERYTHING.

[@lebergerdesphotons4565]

so you have accepted to permit the internet to make you believe that you are very small and very limited. That coincides (if, as is your case, you are a coincidence theorist) with what the people with all the power want you to believe. I hope for you and the billions of others like you that you can get over this stupidity of believing what people who want you dead want you to believe.

[@YainVieyra]

@@lebergerdesphotons4565 hahahahahaa!

[@lebergerdesphotons4565]

@@YainVieyra maybe you could offer the explanation of why you find that funny?

[@YainVieyra]

@@lebergerdesphotons4565 do you explain to people every time you laugh?

[@lebergerdesphotons4565]

@@YainVieyra no. but I do explain every time they ask.

[@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627]

"Close, but no perpetually burning cigar" Put that on a t-shirt.

[@allenstephens3439]

Mabey...

[@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627]

@The main cause of warps in all of reality Relax dude. No need to be so excessive and rude. Couldve simply said "Spellcheck can go a long way".

[@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627]

Just to further my own comment, put an image on the shirt of a popular perpetual motion machine design and then write "Close, but no perpetually burning cigar" underneath the image or on the back of a shirt. Thatd be pretty cool and comical at the same time.

[@MrMusicEnrique]

Damn.

[@Yawyna124]

@@seemlyme I'm not entirely certain how you hope to assemble this. Or why you think this would work indefinitely. It is possible to make the float of a fill valve work in reverse, so to speak, that it closes up a valve the lower the fill line gets. But then once you get past that it becomes dubious. Firstly, this is the wrong type of valve for such a process as, the second the moment the inverted fill valve whose valve is shut off by the float as the water level lowers as opposed to rises, the bladder will begin to fill again. It would be better to simply let the pressure between the gravity-fed water tank and the pressure within the bladder equalize, and then seal it off with a valve that isn't dependent on the level of the water, or seal off the bladder at some semi-arbitrary point prior to the bladder bursting with an independent valve. But then we get the issue of attempting to spray the water back into the tank. As the bladder begins to drain, the pressure on the water will shrink and any free-jetted water will have a weaker and weaker stream until it can no longer be fed back into the tank. "The manual actions should be automated and repeated then perpetual motion" As the machine you've proposed doesn't have any way to automate them, you will need to automate them from an outside source which is energy loss. Additionally, this machine is what this video described as a "type 3 perpetual motion device" where it can theoretically feed itself indefinitely, but does no work outside of that. The water being sprayed through the air or the water being fed through to the bladder would need to interact with an outside system in order for it to do work. The failings of your proposal are: 1) Improper valve usage 2) dependence on consistent pressure in a variable pressure system 3) It is a perpetual motion machine that does no work besides to feed itself. 4) It cannot even feed itself.

[@junkerzn7312]

Ah, yes, zero point energy. The guy I worked for 20 years ago was an analog engineer and he also was a patent examiner on the side. I remember long conversations on the phone where he would have to carefully explain to various inventors why their energy extraction devices wouldn't work. They tried to avoid saying the word 'perpetual', but basically that is what their patent applications usually amounted to. Reverse-entropic devices.... for example, trying to extract usable energy from johnson noise, and stuff like that. There were inventions that passed his desk that did produce energy... just not very much, and most of the inventors didn't understand physics well enough to know where the energy was actually coming from... but thought they had something wonderful when what they really had was a really inefficient solar panel or thermal gradient device. -Matt

[@scotthammond3230]

I almost feel these quacks should be celebrated a bit instead of ridiculed. It takes a lot of effort, imagination and drive to create these things. However their creations unfortunately just add to the anti-science wave of moon landings, flat earths, global warming, antivax, etc.

[@Bob5mith]

Every once in a while I go down the KZbin "free energy" rabbit hole. On rare occasions I can get someone to understand there is no energy in magnets to extract. Mostly, they just freak out and call me names. I only wish "big oil" would pay me to point out the obvious in comment sections.

[@EebstertheGreat]

Yeah but you probably didn't try attaching flywheels to the electromagnets, that's what did it. The laws of thermodynamics will stop being true if I add enough physically confusing pieces to my grand design.

[@gordonlawrence4749]

There is a third category which is neither thermal or PV, it goes back to crystal sets and you can get a measurable amount of power from a truckload of antennae and tank circuits with a cats whisker type diode. Basically you can get a few microwatts out of each one.

[@gordonlawrence4749]

@@scotthammond3230 I hope you mean moon landing deniers and global warming deniers.

[@rolfs5854]

When I was at school, a friend and I. We invented Perpetuum mobiles and discussed them with the physics teacher. They worked in that perspective that the teacher always said to us that our Perpetuum mobiles will not work because of this and this physical law. A law we did not learn until this point.

[@michaelrose93]

The second law does not state that "entropy can _never_ decrease," only that entropy _tends_ to increase. 3:08 The fact is that is can indeed run in reverse, for short periods of time, it's just so rare that we don't tend to consider it.

[@GogiRegion]

Let me guess. Quantum?

[@BryanRice800]

Just to clarify, ElectroBoom was debunking all the "perpetual motion machines" and other misinformation videos.

[@lidarman2]

Yeah. I didn't understand why PBS space time decided to lump him in that section. ElectroBoom is a really smart guy with a terrific channel.

[@d_9696]

It says "thanks to ElectroBoom" at the top :D

[@adondriel]

@@d_9696 yea, i'm pretty sure they were giving him a nod, saying "funny video man" not saying that he was one of the people scamming others.

[@dixie_rekd9601]

yeah none of the other videos got their channel name mentioned. :)

[@lidarman2]

@@d_9696 Gotcha. I thought that was part of his original video.

[@chris999999999999]

"I keep designing perpetual motion machines. Ironically, I can't seem to stop." I forget where the quote comes from though, sorry.

[@NarwahlGaming]

Sounds like something Groucho Marx would say. Or, Marty Feldman.

[@squirlmy]

Smart as he was, Groucho left school at the age of 12. His early 20th century audiences were also unlikely to know what perpetual motion machines were; what is special about the idea. It can be hard to appreciate how ignorant people of the past were of simple mechanics; certainly they did not know laws of thermodynamics. Whoever made that joke was certainly more modern.

[@TheReZisTLust]

-Ronald Weasley

[@wernerboden239]

Even if you know it is impossible, just go on. Most of the things we learn, is more because we fail, rather than success.

[@ricardobimblesticks1489]

The impossibilty stems from the approach, everyone focuses on the machine part of the problem. When one focuses on modifying perpetuity then the problem becomes a great deal easier to solve.

[@LoveDoctorNL]

Love the “Quantum Mechanics forbids this” 😄

[@Lumberjack_king]

It's actually a meme now

[@BenchwarmerJoe]

We dare not speak its name.

[@theautodan7095]

Google search joseph newmann perpetual motion...

[@LoveDoctorNL]

Dan Marron : Great example of an idea that doesn’t work, thanks

[@theautodan7095]

@@LoveDoctorNL how do you figure? He had JPL labs at NASA examine it and they agree it works. 2 electrical engineers from the patent office agreed it works...

[@DOUGtheBAMF]

If They were all the craze before they discovered the laws of thermodynamics, why not just undo the law and make the perpetual machines again?

[@MegaBanne]

lol

[@museifu3419]

Idk why they're making such a big fuss, just Ctrl + Alt + Z and problem solved

[@ikhsanhasbi657]

I hope they also undo the law of gravity so I can fly

[@kishinasura1504]

Ikr fucking government and their laws

[@CouncilOfTheLostGoats]

They need unanimous congressional approval and we all know that's not happening.

[@heatrez1518]

Even the Carnot cycle doesn't necessarily have an efficiency of unity. If I recall my thermo correctly, a Carnot engine's efficiency is dependent on the temperature of the heat source and heat sink. Efficiency = 1 - Tsink/Tsource At Tsink = 0K or Tsource = infinityK, the efficiency will be 1. For any other cases, efficiency will not be 1. A Carnot engine could even have an efficiency of 0 if Tsink = Tsource.

[@canrex7540]

Would a ball of mass surrounded by a sphere of negative mass collapse to a black hole? Or would the mass squish out of the way, like playdough in a hydraulic press? If it does form a black hole, what does it mean for a black hole to contain negative mass? A white hole? God I love physics thought experiments.

[@quahntasy]

"Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this 😂👌" I am ded.

[@enluve3920]

perpetual motion forbids this joke..

[@Matyniov]

noone: universe: "Actually, quantum mechanics forbid this"

[@alandouglas2789]

An Account no one* it’s two words

[@twigdayzclips2859]

Alan Douglas no-one* if you’re reading a book and it’s on 2 different lines.

[@alandouglas2789]

Yaboi Twig no it wouldn’t appear that way either because they are two completely seperate words.

[@twigdayzclips2859]

Alan Douglas I guess a couple of authors are wrong then

[@vornamenachname906]

he wrote none long. so it's noone.

[@JEANSDEMARCO]

In the 60s I visited the Franklin Institute in Philly! They had a swinging pendulum about 3 stories high which kept swinging because of it's alignment with the earth's equator, and the earths rotation kept it swinging! Of course, any hookup with work would eventually slow it to a stop!

[@therealzilch]

All Foucault pendulums run down eventually because of friction, unless they are powered somehow. They precess because of the Earth's rotation, but they cannot extract energy from it. Most are powered by an electromagnet near the top of the cable.

[@thevoiceofscience6930]

If perpetual motion was possible, physics would break. The laws which would be broken would have terrible implications elsewhere. Such violations of these laws could open the door for other, unforeseeable things; like a creature which never needs to eat, photosynthesize, or look for chemicals.

[@skrub3801]

THE MEME IS HERE! ACTUALLY, QUANTUM MECHANICS FORBIDS THIS!

[@sagnikpaul1811]

Sounds good.

[@oltro15]

Ok

[@douglaswilliams4389]

Perpetual gravity can be harnessed . An under water wheel using 12 airbags with 12 weights outside of them. Can be made to turn using gravity alone. Only enough air to fill 6 of the bags. Weights will move towards gravity's pull = from the top towards the axial. = from the bottom away from the axial. Taking air with them through the wheel from the top to the bottom bag.(accordion style). All the full air bags are on the same side. Gravity will spin the wheel... till patrs ware out. Is that perpetual enough for you. From the arch-angel. Ram full Than

[@RetrogradeBeats]

Douglas Williams no

[@dadutchboy2]

caps lock

[@lonelyspaceman4832]

6:51 HE DID IT BOYS. HE SAID THE THING!

[@pierfrancescopeperoni]

That's the second time he says that. But I don't know if it was already a meme.

[@AutoBodyEverything]

The closest we’ll ever get would still be impossible because of gravity which ALSO creates friction because it’s inevitable that separate parts will be touching another. Also all and any device must be balanced for the least loss of energy BUT then again that allows an equal balance distribution of energy made and energy used which cancels itself out.

[@markcasey2517]

Best episode ever, Matt. ❤

[@TheLegend-oy2sg]

I consider incredibly slow loss in energy to be close enough to perpetual motion for being a cool toy

[@yossarrian]

like the sun is near enough infinite energy to stop the winjing and tap that keg

[@misaelolvera2996]

Like when someone makes an m machine that takes the power of a magnet and just releases it really slowly over time since magnetism power last so long I would consider these

[@jasoncruz19800]

Yup. It wouldnt make a difference if it lasts a million years or infinity to humans.

[@wbass243]

The ebb and flow of tides is the easiest macro scale oscillating energy system. Why is everyone trying to chase what the moon and earth already provides?

[@outputcoupler7819]

@@misaelolvera2996 Nobody has made such a machine, because they're mathematically impossible. Magnets don't have power. They do not release energy. You can't run anything on them, because they are not power sources. Think about magnets like springs. The spring can push on something, but only if you compress the spring first. So the energy you get out of the spring is just the energy you put in when you compressed it, minus some losses. It's exactly the same with magnets. There is no arrangement of permanent magnets that provides a sustained net force, just like there's no way to arrange springs so that they'll continually accelerate a wheel. The reason electric motors work is because they move the field itself. There is absolutely no way to make permanent magnets do what electric motors do, because their fields are static. And once the device has reached its minimum energy state, it will simply stop. And the magnets will make you stop faster, because they'll induce eddy currents as the moving magnetic fields pass through conductors, sapping energy from the system and dissipating it as heat. Seriously. Trust the physicists on this one. The whole "make stuff spin forever with magnet power" is bullshit.

[@BLADESTER128]

-creates perpetual motion machine Quantum physics wants to know your location. Not momentum though

[@MegaBanne]

Haha, that's lame.

[@myst1c164]

Super! I guess no one got it. It was supposed to be like SUPER POSITION

[@ZeroSleap]

Quantum Physics won't see you running :P

[@BallenTrades]

i want to put this on a shirt

[@WolfLykaios]

Oh, Arceus, that's the definition of nerdiness xD

[@joeloliver2279]

All this video did was convince me that I want to make a cool looking toy thing that goes for a long time

[@IsaacClodfelter]

While it is unlikely verging on impossible for anything to reach 100% efficiency all the attempts at a perpetual motion mechanism did create highly efficient systems. Which is incredibly useful.

[@YoungTheFish]

Great, now my youtube recommandation will be filled with fake perpetual motion contraptions, again.

[@pbsspacetime]

Trying researching them for an episode. KZbin will never show me anything else ever again.

[@Merennulli]

I have KZbin history disabled. I tend to only get enhanced garbage recommendations for a little while after watching videos like this. I say enhanced, since it's still pretty garbage normally.

[@byrnemeister2008]

Merennulli Good call!! I’m disabling KZbin history right now.

[@stylis666]

It's a trap! Get out!

[@NarwahlGaming]

Don't you mean you'll be getting... perpetual recommendations? Say! Is that the exit over there?

[@mamons30]

"Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this." is just reality saying "wait that's illegal"

[@vishnus.p.4007]

Even quantum mechanics is incomplete. So don't jump into conclusions. It maybe possible !!!!

[@rodolfomerced1815]

@@vishnus.p.4007 If there is gravity there is energy facebook.com/overunity1/

[@lilsammich8252]

The impossible drive laughs in your general direction.

[@seminoldschool7032]

...you should copyright that. I promise you THAT quote will be incredibly significant in the near future. Brilliant retort!

[@randdDiaries]

As per recent developments in physics, we can create and destroy the energy www.amazon.com/dp/B08GVJLPWV

[@LunaProtege]

The Carnocycle actually gives the barest inkling of an idea; room temperature air is brought into the system from outside a room and compressed to create a high temperature zone to power an engine, then once the heated cylinder has "cooled down" to "room temperature", the compressed gas is released into the outside world where it is functionally "very cold", but will disperse eventually due to the sheer volume of "room temperature air" as well as being warmed by solar rays or possibly geothermal radiation. This process would essentially be a "very inefficient solar engine".

[@radinelaj3932]

It will 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙋. Because the "starting force" go to end up, it will not increase but it will decrease during the process, , it mean : the process( the cycle) will finish( end) soon

[@non-inertialobserver946]

Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this 😂👌

[@crazieeez]

@ViperDaniel Where in quantum mechanics says this is forbidden? There is NO SUCH THING as time in quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics believe time is an emergent property. An any kind of MOTION machine requires time for motion, as such quantum mechanics doesn't say any such thing that this is forbidden.

[@non-inertialobserver946]

@@crazieeez boi

[@crazieeez]

@XX-M.A. haha thanks for the heads up

[@crazieeez]

@William Burns Who say I will. There are crazier people who will do it and they may be successful so however much anger you have now, will be mute. :) Today's idiot is tomorrow's genius.

[@HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS]

@@crazieeez I wouldn't bank on that... LUL

[@evank3718]

My favorite example is charging your phone with a light-powered charger powered by your phone flashlight

[@JohnPaulBuce]

its like charging but with extra steps

[@MattH-wg7ou]

@@JohnPaulBuce *discharging

[@JohnPaulBuce]

@@MattH-wg7ou wat

[@JohnPaulBuce]

@@MattH-wg7ou oh yeah i got it lol

[@kiwitrainguy]

I've got another one for you: Making the room colder by leaving the fridge door open.

[@Hansulf]

Best part of thinking that you know how to make a perpetual motion machine is that at some point you realize is not posible and you get to really understand the Second Law of Thermodinamics.

[@rcmakingtracks18]

Brilliant, liked and subscribed. John

[@kingbarriga]

happy days when Space Time uploads

[@justinr8425]

Kingbarriga I look forward to taking my lunch break on Thursdays (usually) and watching new video. My one and only subscription is space time.

[@Bluemilk92]

TL;DR I've never noticed it before, but PBS has been one of the biggest educational institutions of my entire life. It's "done it's job" _so_ well, for so long. I *really* don't want to come off as patronizing. This channel really does make me proud of PBS. I'm so astounded by how well they've adapted to KZbin. This content in particular almost feels like it's evolved with me, in a personal way. When I watched PBS as a kid, it was stuff that was just complex enough to actually be educational. Then cable came around, and I assume they had more freedom to challenge their audience, so while I was a young man, I remember learning new stuff. Even though I spent most of my life at a school, I learned. Now as an adult, who spent endless hours as a teenager watching physics specials and nature documentaries, I'm still being taught. I've learned from what they taught me, and now they're teaching me something else. Like they're keeping track of what I know. That's what I mean by it feels personal. They're SO SO SO good at their job, bless them.

[@medexamtoolsdotcom]

Too bad about their ideological agenda on top of that subtly brainwashing you. Not THESE videos, not the spacetime videos with this guy, but some of the others.

[@rays5163]

I know right big bird is a facist bastard snowflake or whatever

[@zigmeisterful]

@@rays5163 Big Bird is a straight up muthafuckin National Socialist.

[@yuno9121]

So um. Youre constantly being taught but what are you using the knowledge for?

[@LyricsOfALifetime]

@@yuno9121 None of your business. This person could be an environmental scientist, a doctor, systems engineer, etc making a difference every day. What are YOU contributing to society? Maybe it's just interesting to learn about this stuff. I'm a painter who would never understand the more nuanced aspect of physics and q. mechanics, but I would much rather spend my free time watching videos like these without pretentious assholes like you asking what I'm going to do with that information condescendingly.

[@danelfernandez6571]

1:48 that one is so stupid it's actually hilarious 😂, why would the ball fall throw the hole, a magnet strong enough to pull it up isn't gonna let it fall

[@rickcollins1825]

I gave that a thought for a moment. I don't know you are right. The ball is being pulled up a ramp. That requires less force than to hold it against the direct pull of gravity.

[@charlesstevens3297]

THE DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION OF A QUANTUM FIELD PRIME MOVER there is no claim of perpetual motion being made nor of "FREE ENERGY" simply that a magnet is a energy storage device; and that it is possible to building a "rotating" systems to convert the potential energy to kinetic energy (using permanent magnets only, NO other energy input needed). Understanding the underlying engineering problems, namely that 2 magnets repelling (NN) one an other in a circular motion meet each other at 180 degrees of rotation and are repelling (SS) each other in the opposite direction ?? there is a very easy solution ! I will leave it to you to discover what it is.

[@roboman342]

It's always Friction. Saved you 11 mins.

[@light_flowgaming9570]

@ki kus 😂😂😂😂😂

[@archiebrew8184]

@ki kus i think you killed him

[@redslate]

My thought as well. Lol

[@casmsfrought9956]

Where'd your profile pic from??

[@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt]

So superconductivity makes perpetual motion machines possible huh? Horse shyt.

[@alifarhat667]

Would you say that perpetual motion machines will be perpetually proposed?

[@Merennulli]

The universe would need to be a perpetual motion machine to do that. Stop dark energy from spreading everything out and then maybe we can talk about it.

[@Merennulli]

​@Adam George The universe is only estimated to be 13.8 billion years old, so we're still "near the very beginning of infinity". Keep in mind that you can only exist to observe the universe during the time period during which it has low enough entropy to support your existence (ie, relatively close to the beginning). But as for the rest of what you said, no, motion doesn't "stop". Energy will always exist in the universe, it will simply be too spread out to interact with other energy after a while. It will still exhibit quantum behavior and experience changes in its trajectory that keep it from being "perpetual motion", but some form of motion will always exist.

[@Muykle]

As the heat death of the universe approaches, i imagine sentient creatures will still try to formulate something like that.

[@Mernom]

@Adam George Infinity doesn't exist.

[@bassimkiani5504]

that alliteration is just gold 👌

[@Dragonblaster1]

Likewise, the Fontus evaporative water condenser (the project has now gone bust). It relies on the ground always being cooler that the air above (also high local humidity, which usually doesn’t result in deserts, which is why hot Florida isn’t exactly like the Sahara Desert). However, by the water vapour giving up its latent heat of evaporation, the soil around the unit will soon warm up until there is no temperature gradient.

[@gustavedelior3683]

My physics teacher had a fit of laughter when we were building machines based on perpetual motion machines, we were seeing of everyone in class who's machine ran longest, my teacher thought this year he has something that could potentially become a PMM. I said to him before you build a perpetual machine, shouldn't you first find perpetual materials to build it from.

[@manscapedgrinch1427]

My concern exactly, I've wondered about ideal building materials for decades.. the design doesn't matter if it is still subject to degradation

[@davelowets]

I wouldnt want that teacher

[@Kevin-cm5kc]

As someone with no background in physics, i disagree. Here, let me explain. See what you do is...

[@ronrothrock7116]

The interesting this is, trained scientists have trouble thinking outside the box they are put in. If they start off from the position that something is impossible, then they will not try to do it. The person to find this, if it IS possible, will end up being the person you are ridiculing. Rather than mocking them, treat them like children and pat them on the head and say, "Keep trying". If they succeed we all win, right?

[@rursus8354]

I hate nerd humour! Go get a girlfriend!

[@jcdenton5828]

Peter Rabitt hey! Keep your strap on lady boy fan-ism to yourself. Don’t go down the LGBTQ path

[@PaLcEk89]

Peter Rabitt at least pc will not bitch about feminism and female rights

[@Egregius]

@George Bennett This is actually causing the moon's orbit to decrease over time, as it loses momentum. So..'fraid not.

[@terryboyer1342]

No such thing as a perpetual motion machine? This guy obviously hasn't spent much time around two year olds.

[@DapperHesher]

They get old and die. #science

[@andrewloesl4968]

@@DapperHesher savage

[@thunder_bug_1451]

Do you not feed your kids?

[@FutureChaosTV]

They go to sleep once in a while, don't they?

[@terryboyer1342]

@William Burns They self fuel as they move around. Most anything they see goes into their mouth. :)))

[@caseyford3368]

When using weights or the structure of the kinetic energy generator use neodymium magnets and conductive materials for the rods or whatever you're using for the body.

[@randomuser1093]

Our goal shouldn’t be trying to create a perpetual motion Maschine, it should trying to create something that’s close to one, which is possible

[@CorwynGC]

This pursuit is called engineering.

[@jackthorton10]

Genuine

[@DigGil3]

So what you are saying is fusion power

[@robertc895]

@Jacob Turnbaugh Thats simply not true. Did you watch the video? Perhaps things are perpetual in the theoretical entire expansion and contraction of universes. If the expansion reverses and all the energy expended collects back into a black hole, and the cycle perfectly starts over again, then you are correct. But we don't know that, therefore you are just wrong. Planets slow down over time, suns burn out, hawking radiation, heat radiation, vibration slowing inertia, etc etc. Please explain yourself.

[@robertc895]

@Jacob Turnbaugh Nope. Magnets lose their efficacy over time mate.

[@petejohnston5880]

I invented a perpetual motion machine when I was a kid. It goes as follows. Get a hose and form it into a circular loop so that the two ends join. Half fill this loop with a magnetic liquid and mount the loop so that it is upright (like a big wheel). Also inside the hose place a small hollow ball so that it floats on the liquid on the left side. Now place a large permanent magnet near the loop on it's left so that the liquid is pulled towards it and now only fills the left side of the loop. This will take the ball to the top of the loop which will fall down inside the hose on the right side (with no liquid). When it reaches the bottom inertia will make it enter the liquid at the bottom and once inside it will float up to the top through the liquid. Then when at the top it will continue to move to the right (the empty side) and will then fall down again, continuing forever. I know it doesn't work, but can you see why?

[@davelowets]

Sure. The ball would NEVER penetrate the liquid hard enough to start rising through it on the left side, it would simply stop at the bottom. Gravity would make certain of that.

[@petejohnston5880]

@@davelowets Almost right. You could have enough enertia to penetrate the liquid, but once inside the liquid the flotation action is pushing the ball to the right, not up (as the magnet is on the left and displacement forces are right pushing), so the ball will be pushed straight out again, and gravity will help it stop as well. So even though it could enter the material it would end up sitting at the bottom of the tube just outside the liquid.

[@davelowets]

@@petejohnston5880 If the ball is non-magnetic, the magnet and the "magnetic liquid" would have zero effect on what the ball does. It would simply be gravity overcoming the buoyancy of the ball at that point, and preventing it from completing the cycle.

[@petejohnston5880]

@@davelowets The ball is non magnetic but if it's in the liquid and the liquid is being pulled to the left by the magnet, then the ball is being pushed to the right (to allow the liquid to fill it's space). In a normal liquid the ball would rise to the surface but in this scenario the ball is being pushed to the right (when inside the liquid) and has no upwards forces.So with enough momentum it can enter the liquid it's just that it will be pushed straight out again and will never rise.

[@teathesilkwing7616]

A lot of people are in the comments being like “well x thing isn’t forever but it lasts a long time so it’s a perpetual motion machine”. If it does not last FOREVER and allows infinite energy extraction, it is not a perpetual motion machine. It’s just a really good generator.

[@LiteraIIy_Nobody]

4:14 There would also be friction in that machine. There would also be head transferring through the axle.

[@1MegaBubble]

I lasted an entire 5 minutes of this video and learned something from the miniscule bit that I could grasp before finally accepting that this discussion is miles above my head

[@MrMJE13]

Glad im not the only one, still neat

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

@1MegaBubble If you first go and really LEARN the metric system, you will most likely be able to understand this as a result, and then it won't be kilometers over your head.

[@Oberon4278]

Oh it's okay! We're all like that. Just keep watching, the knowledge will sort of accrete over time.

[@spectrumtraining7422]

its better that way ... continue to search Gods word only for knowledge and understanding

[@Aphong10]

8:05 ElectroBoom!!!! 😂 But you made it look like he was creating a perpetual machine instead he was debunking said machine.... I wonder why 🤔

[@amyanmarcitizen7030]

ElectroBOOM!

[@solargoldfish]

They should add annotations over his part so people know he doesn’t make videos about fake inventions and they can clear his good name. He spends so much of his time debunking those videos. I really hate to see him being made a joke by PBS

[@bustixf1]

@@solargoldfish i dislike the video cause of that.

[@excavateboy]

I was going to mention that he did a video debunking pmm's. Hilariously

[@SandhillCrane42]

That video is very funny, it did show it blow up in the clip, so hopefully people saw it was a joke.

[@little-wytch]

Sorry for being really late to the party, you probably won't even see this, but I have to ask. The Brownian Ratchet idea... just because it's not a true perpetual motion machine doesn't mean it can't have some value. In areas that experience all seasons, couldn't it be useful as a supplemental power generator? A heat pump is basically a reversible Aircon... couldn't something be made for the ratchet where you just spin it around when the seasons change so one side is always colder than the other? Just an idea.

[@caseyford3368]

Think of a ball with energy despersal nobs on the whole outside to transfer energy created to whatever your powering. Then think of having a second, free-floating ball wall inside to help compress the energy created.

[@davelowets]

Huh?

[@davidgill3356]

Wow dude, just wow. You need to realize that spouting off gibberish from you brain doesn’t equal reality.

[@EctorBonilha]

Even if you can't create a perpetual motion machine, creating a 10.000 years motion machine would already be pretty good right?

[@arturorosas2170]

You need extract that energy from some thing, "Equivalent exchange young alchemist"

[@younewser]

That’s kind of the point that I get confused about with all the people who just want to debunk perpetual motion. What I find most interesting is the passive energy generation and the challenge of making an efficient system. Even if you could have a machine that could charge your phone at night, that would be awesome.

[@simonchapman9201]

You refer to perpetually motion visual display. A low energy input is needed, lowering energy loss is good

[@zibbezabba2491]

Absolutely not. We must stick to the rules, perpetual means forever. What use is a perpetual motion machine that only runs for 10,000 years? /s

[@EloquentTroll]

10 year semi perpetual motion machine sounds pretty good as long as it looks cool

[@AppNasty]

I love how this video bassically just takes a huge perpetual crap all over everyone attempting to make a perpetual motion machine. Haha!

[@303elliott]

I'm glad people are still trying. Will it ever amount to a perpetual motion machine? Well no. But maybe we'll get some cool new data from their attempts!

[@0623kaboom]

he defined perpetual motion as a system that runs with no external energy input ... then he demonstrates a machine that receives no external energy input and chooses a PORTION of that to say it is not possible ... like taking a carberutor from and engine and saying it cannot create enough power to move a 1 ton vehicle ... well duh of course not the carb is only a PART of the system .... he made the worst mistake in science possible he removed logic from his rebuttal and got it wrong ... leave the carb in the system turn the key and poof the engine works and moves the 1 ton vehicle ... using a portion of a system to refute its claims is BAD SCIENCE .... and that gets taught in the first week of all science classes ... guess he skipped that week

[@10Tabris01]

I'd like to give honorary mention to the perpetuum mobile thought up in the German children's book "Jim Knopf", in which a steam locomotive was to be pulled forward by a pair of magnets, granting it the ability to fly

[@randystegemann9990]

The only perpetual thing in the world is ignorance and scammers trying to expliot that.

[@onuktav]

ElectroBoom! Great guy! Smart and funny as hell. 😁

[@leonardoadomingues]

The video that os showed on this video is in fact Medi showing how a perpetual motion machine can't generate his own electricity!! Very funny guy!!

[@mykulpierce]

KVL is for the bird though

[@-Gous-]

I hate that its Not possible, Imagine how cool it would be, it needs to be patched.

[@crimzon5326]

@Vadim VeeVoit the problem is that idk if you're being serious or not

[@crimzon5326]

@Vadim VeeVoit that's why I said there's a problem, cause there wasn't any funny tone, looks like you weren't joking, unfortunately🙄

[@crimzon5326]

@Vadim VeeVoit look if we're bringing IQ into this then I want you to know, you are currently arguing with a 14 year old about classified technology. I'm not saying that classified technology doesn't exist, but don't you think that if someone had groundbreaking evidence that a perpetual motion machine exists, then it would be everywhere? And don't hit me with "oh the government controls the internet" Because if they did then you wouldn't be posting about how the government has tech like this. Go back to your Facebook group you, tinfoil hat wearing, 5g causes cancer, plandemic, motel cumstain for a brain, conspiracy theorist.

[@conservativedemocracyenjoyer]

Well this conversation went down the shitter real quick.

[@evil2862]

Alex The Air Monk damn you must be real fed up with these conspiracy theorists

[@spacedoughnuts]

I hate that I’m taking thermodynamics right now and this is making more sense than my terrible professor and I actually enjoy this unlike those lectures

[@AdamTrautmanBowling]

I had a great teacher for thermo and heat transfer, but I didn't really understand it until years after school haha

[@caseyford3368]

With nano threading throughout the whole vehicle all light or other energies can be captured used or stored as well.😎👍

[@likebutton3136]

Tyrion Lannister got taller? This episode of G.O.T confuses me.

[@arohk4415]

But he's just as smart in this form.

[@MrShanester117]

John Carlson Got is stupid

[@RCWOZDUDE]

Lmao

[@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627]

@@MrShanester117 Just for the sake of irony.. A television show does not posses intellect. It is not a being. So who is stupid now?

[@AmericanFry]

I was just about to say the same thing 😂 he even does the hand thing

[@wrongtoolforthejob5576]

The best proof that entropy always increases is that if the opposite were true, perpetual motion machines would gradually invent and build themselves.

[@smileyp4535]

12:07 I thought the quote was somthing like "how man vankai mirrors have you pursued?" And I went to look it up with a few different spellings until coming back to see the CC and found out what he actually said 😂

[@stevenelson9640]

"...but no perpetually burning cigar." OK, I'm subscribing right now!

[@Candid_Clips]

Bro this is a great way to pass time while having questions answered, I wish this was in podcast form!

[@STR82DVD]

I just download them as to become available.

[@rubenirinco310]

@@STR82DVD zzz

[@donniegoodman8679]

@@STR82DVD in my 78888

[@zerkblue8174]

@Ginge5ify i hear you!!!!! That voice of john tho lol warm greetings from NZ

[@ThePrufessa]

@@STR82DVD not everyone has a premium account

[@Etabobable]

This guy is the regular sized version of Peter Dinklage.

[@tsukuyomi835]

I came to the comment section looking for this. Thanks

[@thisisnahian6753]

i came too looking for this 🤣

[@cowboyneverdycowboynevercr2027]

@@thisisnahian6753 Thats the man that is in the biography, documentary, movie of the actor of Fantasy Island 🏝? Isn't it?

[@cowboyneverdycowboynevercr2027]

Well, get a generater to start a big microwave producing machine that steams H²O 🌫 and turbines turn creating electricity. A electricity substation off to the side regulating the ⚡and the generator that started the microwave steam machine, can then get its own ⚡from self giving electricity to keep microwaving and steaming turbines that make the energy. Cool the steam to recycle itself back thru the machine and still have a water supply from nature to use as well. 🙂 🤝🏼🙃☝🏼😉 Do l have anything?

[@DeadInside24_7]

When i read this i was wondering who peter dknlage was. The i looked at the guy in the video. I see EXACTLY what you mean 🤣🤣🤣

[@caseyford3368]

The self running generators I'm talking about run themselves with combining opposing magnetic fields to constantly charge and run itself for as long as the design lasts. So, a very long time. Now, hook that up to a power wall in homes and businesses. We'd be running everything seperately and connectively at the same time, so blackouts would be extremely rare. Even if the main grid is taken out for any reason.

[@therealzilch]

Didn't you watch this video? This is physically impossible.

[@caseyford3368]

@@therealzilch why? The self running generator would constantly put out energy, that would go into the power wall. Then use the energy needed and send the extra energy back to the power grid.

[@therealzilch]

@@caseyford3368 There's no such thing as a self-running generator. You can't get something for nothing.

[@justinpace2683]

It is absolutely possible, I've done it. Has more to do with torque conversion. It isn't legal for obvious reasons. But bearings do wear out over time so it does need maintenance from time to time, but no fuel/oil of any kind. Grease the sealed bearings from time to time. How hard is it really to you people to fathom this concept, I really don't understand why there's not 4 alternators (one in each wheel hub) in these electric cars. Oh wait I absolutely do, that wouldn't produce money for anyone but the people. And the people are the last thing on governments mind. Hence illegal to create a "Self Sustaining Generator" as I call it. Physics was created by mankind so mankind would know their limits. These are limits mankind came up with from science, science is something mankind labels things difficult to explain, beyond that the only label they have is impossible... When they tell you to think outside the box, simply respond... What box?

[@therealzilch]

@@justinpace2683 Sorry, perpetual motion is a pipe dream. You can't get something for nothing, no matter how much you might want to.

[@pseudolullus]

Ericsson's caloric engine is a nice 19th century example which was actually built and used to propel a ship. Now the engine worked... terribly badly because Ericsson thought he could magically recycle heat without losses through an exchanger

[@rickcollins1825]

It works because you supply it with heat. Hence the term "caloric".

[@PhilipLeitch]

I invented a perpetual motion drone. It was too good and flew away. It's still up there somewhere....

[@djstapler]

Lol

[@DonVitoCS2workshop]

That's unfortunate..

[@uncaboat2399]

That reminds of a science fiction short story I read some time ago, where the guy accidentally invented a ball with a super-unity bounce ratio. That is, if you dropped it from 100 cm high, it would bounce back up 102 cm. Cute story, spoilers, it proved to have disastrous consequences, particularly when it was bouncing miles and miles into the sky, each bounce was like a meteor impact, and they couldn't figure out how to catch the damn thing.

[@paulshereshaw6092]

I think it just flew by my house

[@ravenlord4]

Assuming a positive cosmological constant, isn't the expanding universe the ultimate perpetual motion machine?

[@ravenlord4]

@Es D Negative wouldn't work. It's been shown that you'd only get a limited number of Big Bang / Big Crunch oscillations.

[@ericalbers4867]

@@ravenlord4 yes but... the universe itself isn't bound to the laws of physics. Only the matter and evergy is on a local level. The real question here is: in an expanding universe, is energy conserved? If so, how? If not, rethink your laws or decouple them from your assumptions about the nature of the beginning/end of the universe. Because on a cosmological scale the laws of thermodynamics are fanboy trash.

[@bigdickpornsuperstar]

The universe is NOT perpetual.... it has an end.

[@bigdickpornsuperstar]

@@ericalbers4867 ~"On a cosmological scale" is the only place where the laws of thermodynamics ultimately apply. On a human scale it only matters as an equation of efficiency. But until the last proton decays some billion trillion years in the future, the laws of thermodynamics ARE on a cosmological scale.

[@NonDelusional74611]

Jerry VanNuys is an icy eternity spent getting closer and closer and closer and closer to absolute zero....an “ end”?

[@three6nine992]

How about we use magnetism to create a "perpetual motion" machine? Use a gear driven rotating magnet, one poll is shielded to prevent interactions. The rotating magnet exposes the unshielded poll at the proper moment that repells another magnet placed on a wheel, thereby making the wheel spin.... Have multiple spinning magnets and multiple wheel magnets all adjusted to make the wheel continue its motion perpetually..... The spinning magnets movement is driven by the wheel rotating, the spinning magnets are fixed in place but spin like a top.

[@three6nine992]

If the Universe has a finite life, there is no such thing as infinity so there can be no perpetual anything unless you base "perpetual" on the idea of individual perspective... Is a wheel that spins for 40 years any less perpetual to an observer who only lives 30 years than if it spins for eternity?

[@rickcollins1825]

@@three6nine992 Yes, 40 years is not perpetual. The point is to have no energy input. Inputting energy at the start and having it coast for a long time is not the point. People have designed things that last a long time. A college (I think in the UK) has a bell that has been ringing for over a hundred and maybe 200 years. It's just a couple of very long lasting batteries and a very low energy bell. It's still not perpetual energy.

[@three6nine992]

@@rickcollins1825 it is as close to perpetual one can get using actual mechanics.. in order to achieve actual perpetual motion, one would need to utilize my unified theory in physics.. here is a presentation to get you started. Elastic Space-Time Threads Theory: A Universe Woven from Infinite Threads March 19, 2024 1 Introduction The Elastic Space-Time Threads Theory conceptualizes the universe as an intri- cate fabric composed of infinite threads. These threads are not contained within the universe; they are the very essence of the universe, defining its structure and dynamics. 2 Infinite Threads and Space-Time Fabric Uthread = lim l→∞ Z l 0 T (Di) dl (1) Here, Uthread represents the universe as a function of the infinite threads T (Di), integrated over their infinite length l in dimension Di . 3 Fundamental Forces and Mass from Thread Interactions Ffundamental(Di , Dj ) = Z I Ginteraction(Di , Dj ) · T (n) ij dI (2) Ffundamental(Di , Dj ) denotes the fundamental forces or mass emerging from the interactions between threads in dimensions Di and Dj , with Ginteraction(Di , Dj ) being the interaction strength and T (n) ij the topological factor in the n-th di- mension, integrated over all interactions I. 4 Thread Dynamics and the Nature of Reality Rreality(Di) = X 12 n=1 Φ (n) thread(Di) (3) 1

[@three6nine992]

@@rickcollins1825 there is no difference to the man who only lived 30 years, the wheel spun for eternity as far as he is concerned.. with the proper material science, the wheel would spin for hundreds or thousands of years before mechanical failure....

[@Ken-rq9xr]

Five years old and still filled curious people. This guy is great 😃👍🤓😸🦜

[@gruntopolouski5919]

I’m intrigued by the use of a siphon to move water uphill… always have been.

[@stewiesaidthat]

Siphons don't move water uphill, they move it downhill by routing it over a hump to create negative pressure. Trees and plants and even dirt itself can move water uphill via capillary action.

[@davelowets]

A siphon HAS to have more downhill than uphill, or it would cease to function

[@shaun6828]

I used think about this kind of thing when I was maybe 13 or 14 and taking my first science classes. The last "free energy" design I came up with was a capillary pump. I googled about them just now and it's interesting to see some of the designs others have had for them. No surprise that there have been no prospects for power generation.