The laws of physics say that friction and other energy disappating realities makes a machine that will run indefinitely impossible.
That hasn’t stopped this guy from offering up some different approaches to trying to achieve the feat.
A lot of these seem to be inspired by the over-balanced wheel concept.
I like how no one in the comments on either link believe any of these actually work for a minute.
I once dated a perpetually bitchy woman.
It is possible!
Damn it, don’t let obama see this. He’ll fund it eith green billions.
When you pass any form of energy thru a medium you
lose some of that energy thru friction.Radio waves and light
travel thru the universe unimpeded because space is an empty
vacuum with no resistance…
Physics does allow for perpetual motion as long as it is rotation.
However, it can do no work.
Rotation is a special motion in that it is the only motion that moves against a fixed frame of reference and is not relative to other objects or frames of reference.
JohnS, Just when I thought your jaw was perpetual motion.
The James Bond franchise is perpetual.
That is until they cave to PC and cast a black Bond.
The guys that invented those machines are dam smart people !
The classic PM machine is a generator connected to a electric motor.It
will run a long time with precise bearings.
I’ll tell you what is perpetual,
waiting for the washing machine to make that last click and finish.
I got the dryer open, ready to load.
Waiting…waiting…waiting…
We see perpetual motion every day. When will the government stop perpetually screwing the public?
@Loco, why is it they don’t put a buzzer on a washing machine, just on the drier? And where the hell does all that lint come from?
It sucks not having a maid.
Sorry BB.
I didn’t intend to go over your head.
Many do not understand physics.
I am sure you are very good at what you do.
JohnS, funny, I just felt my zipper rattle a little bit. Oh that head.
I recall physics as one of my toughest classes in college.
It didn’t help having an Asian teacher that could barely pronounce English words.
Frictional contact mechanics was a string of words that made us all snicker when Li tried his best.
The only thing that never stops is the effort people put into making these things!
Unruly — that lint used to be your clothes. I’m old school and still hang them all on a line. Nothing like slipping into crisp cotton sheets that have been dried in the sun and fresh air.
bitterclinger, that’s the way to do it!
I’ve been saving my lint to use as fire-starter for my little gassifier stove. As much as I have saved, you’d think I’d be missing a whole pair of jeans.
🙂
Too many made grinding, clunking noises. No way it’s even efficient, much less perpetual.
Now, the Gyrocopter. That’s impressive. How do the unpowered blades not slow down at all during flight? They are doing work by providing lift.
Perpetual motion is impossible as long as gravity is present; even in a vacuum.
Tsunami; at what distance, or length of time, does a photon that doesn’t strike anything stop moving?
Aren’t these people the same ones preaching about globull warming?
JohnS,
A photon has supposedly zero mass and travels at the speed of light; yet is still bent or deflected, thus changing its trajectory.
Why is that?
OK now we’re getting into the mysteries of quantum science.
As soon as you understand light is both particle AND wave it’ll make more sense. Depends on the observer’s method. You’re dabbling in the quantum realm of understanding the universe’s basics.
Careful. You might end up seeing an argument for a Creator if you go far enough.
One need not go very far.
Most astrophysicists are creationists. That is the essence of the Big Bang theory. Also, there is no mechanism that can allow for other than that all the information needed to create the universe existed before it was created.
That information had to reside in something.
JohnS
So, you know. ?
Just skimmed the article and saw friction, perpetual motion, and some such science stuff. When can we have sex with it? Asking for a ‘friend’….
The people who believe any of these are perpetual motion machines probably can be talked into pissing on an electric fence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwKlFkX65Zs
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