:lol: Pay attention when you get to engineering school.
You hit the problem with perpetual motion right on the head, but you blazed right past it. “Parasitic loss” will become known as “work” once you take a physics or thermodynamics class. You can’t do any work with a perpetual motion machine. Which includes moving anything with any mass, meaning it can’t be an actual machine because machines have moving parts that have mass.
Perpetual motion machines can “exist”, but they cannot do any work, thus they can only exist as intellectual concepts. Thought experiments.
The whole thing about perpetual motion isn’t that something can be started and move for a long ass time, the problem comes in when there is a load against the movement (which would be needed to create energy (spin a generator by hand and see where that gets you)) which would bring it to a hault.
No doubt that things can move almost effortlessly with the use of fluid bearings and magnetism and stuff but those things that are moving would stop moving if the energy that was put into it was then pulled out of it.
Spinning a top which floats on a magnetic field will stop eventually due to friction and stuff, but once you put a pulley on that top and try to spin something else, it will stop before it produces as much power as it took to spin it originally.
Yes i understand that, I am not that slow. Lol. But did you see the thread about the guy who lost a toe due to those super strong magnets? I’m sure something with a few if those in a generator could power a light bulb or two and overcome any inherient friction.
I am pumped for real college. Lol. Now if I can only make up my mind on which college I want to go to.
If you can get a magnetic system to spin/move on its own — some type of mechanical contraption of alternating poles or whatever — it will eventually stop. Even if in the beginning it “creates” energy (moves faster on its own) it will eventually slow and stop. What is happening is the magnetic force is the energy source, the magnets are themselves the ‘fuel’ that is consumed. The contraption will stop running when the magnetic force decreases to the point that no work can be done and a state of equilibrium is reached…
You will then have worthless magnets which you could “refill” by remagnetizing (you will still have a net energy loss in the long run) or you could replace them with new magnets. Either way you are not getting free energy. They are just an energy storage device… in other words a terribly inefficient battery.
You would have to be a idiot to think any of these ‘free energy’ devices work. The power isnt generated from nothing, and therefore comes from something. On the youtube videos of people showing their AMAZING new machine that you can run your house off, they talk about how low current it takes to run a motor to spin a magnet generator… But they NEVER have any measurements of any kind showing whats coming in vs out, or have simply voltage in and voltage out, which means absolutely nothing whatsoever.
If you created a perpetual motion device, which is possible, you couldn’t do work with it. That would require energy to be removed from the system, which would need to be created for the device to continue to run. So, therefore it would have to make energy out of nothing. Magnets loose magnetism, and generally require a initial input of energy. If you put any load at all on these things, it would do nothing.
The best example I could find of something on youtube powering something off what appears to be nothing is simply a very large brushless motor running off the inertia put into it by energizing it. The mass of the rotor alone keeps it running until it stops. Even at best, you would have several percent loss.
If someone invented a way to break the laws of physics, we would know. Its hard to hide things with the existence of the internet.