Top 10 Fascinating Attempts at Creating PERPETUAL MOTION Machine

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A perpetual motion machine is a machine that, once it’s started, won’t stop and doesn’t need any additional energy to keep going. That means the machine could be used as a source of unlimited free energy. Which is great, so why don’t we just make one? Well, it isn’t because of some conspiracy theory by the energy sector. The reason none have ever been built is because they’re actually impossible to build since perpetual motion breaks the first two laws of thermodynamics. The first law is that energy is constant; it cannot be created or destroyed. The second is that entropy will either increase or remain the same. Essentially, you can never get a greater output of energy than inputted and energy will always decrease over time.

Coming up:

10. Boyle’s Self-Flowing Flask
9. Monopole Magnet
8. Rolling Ball Wheel
7. Water Mill and Pump
6. Paul Scheerbart’s Weight-Driven Cogwheel
5. Magnets and Gravity
4. Force of Gravity Perpetual Motion Machine
3. Neodymium Magnets
2. Perepiteia
1. Finsrud’s Perpetuum Mobile

Source/Further reading:

[Alexalas]

1. hook up alternator to dead physicist
2. use one of the machines listed in this video
3. physicist will roll over in grave creating power.

[userofsouls]

Step 1. Park two forklifts head to head, with the forks underneath the other.
Step 2. Both operators pull the lift lever.
Step 3. Flight.

[efeyzee]

I know this will disappear into the 4.5k comments here but still I need to rant:
NO! "The magnets will lose magnetism over time" is NOT a way to debunk a proposed perpetual motion machine. Nearly all of the debunks in this video are incorrect.There are other and neater explanations on why those contraptions would not work.

[tannerarmstrong]

Talking about how the magnets eventually demagnetize is completely unrelated to the thermodynamic laws that these machines attempt to violate. Every one of these machines have some sort of miscalculation where even if the magnets worked forever or the friction decay of components could be safely ignored, these machines would still fail to work. I am down voting the video because the analysis was lazy, the thumbnail was click-bait, and the legitimate research was non-existent. This video was very disappointing.

[philthy]

Perpetual motion machine; easy. Tape a piece of toast to the back of a domestic cat and drop. As cats always land on their feet and toast always lands buttered side down, the cat will hover inches above the ground and spin rapidly as the universe tries to solve this cat/toast paradox. Simply insert a drive shaft into the cats arse and you have virtually unlimited power.

[willygonutz]

Two things always confuse me when it comes to the for/against argument with perpetual motion machines.
Firstly, when a machine is discredited because 'the magnet would lose its force over time', or the excuse that 'friction' would mean the parts need to be replaced.
These 2 reasons effectively rule out all perpetual motion machines and all machines in general.
In a billion years everything we have made, perpetual or otherwise, will be dust.
I think friction and loss of magnetic force are separate from the goal, as I understood it the idea was to create a machine that produced more energy than it consumed, even if for a short period of time.
Secondly, in a real world application, why does it have to be absolutely perfect, why not take one of these inventions, construct it on a larger scale, apply a system of gears and power a city on a 12 Volt battery?

[arczero]

TopTenz: Well theoretically protons will eventually decay after billions of years and the universe will die a heat death due to entropy and friction, so it isn't truly a perpetual motion machine...

[chrisofnottingham]

The reason #3 isn't PM is nothing to do with magnets running out, it is that the guys is pushing the wheel round with his hand. It may be an invisible push with a magnet but it is still an input of mechanical energy by the guy holding the magnet and basically using it as a stick to push the wheel round - he will be able to feel the magnetic wheel pushing back at him.

[mudrlandik]

1- Create device that can generate free electricity
2- Dont use it
3- Be remembered as a single person who could save the planet, and did not do so.

OR
1- Create device that can generate free electricity
2- Get rich
3- Be remembered as a single person who saved the planet, and went insanely rich in the process.

[TrustTheFund]

This video does a very poor job of explaining why these Machines don't actually work.

[chasejefferies-warren]

Narrator's debunk for everything: It will only work for 1 trillion years so it's not a 'true' perpetual motion machine.

[gillesderais]

so the thubnail had nothing to do with the video. great.

[The_Omegaman]

“Really long time” motion would be a huge accomplishment. Replace parts once a year and youd be rich.

[DavidMcCoul]

5:37 "The strongest batteries commercially available are Neodymium magnets." Wait, what?

[Jon-to]

"Gravity doesn't work in space, so this machine doesn't count" "Magnets only last 100years so this is not a true perpetual motion device"

[Dangizzle]

He is worried that his machine may be too revolutionary... cause it never stops spinning 😂

[nrdesign]

Points for having no annoying music in the background.

[icic]

I thought he said "watermelon pump"

[JerryEricsson]

My grandfather was an inventor, he worked for years in a little shop on his farm on building his perpetual motion machine. It worked very well, based on a DC electric motor and a DC generator, the generator powering the motor which powered the generator. He never got it quite right but when I was 8 years old, I thought it was the most wonderful machine I had ever seen. That and riding the horses on Grandpa's farm were two of my favorite things to do.

[CleedwoodTV]

Heres a "Free energy" machine for ya
step 1. add dynamo on bike
step 2. place phone with Pokemon go in human hand
step 3. place human on bike
step 4. hack pokemon go and make mewtwo spawn 200m away from said human just to despawn again 4 meters before impact
step 5. Enjoy free energy from dynamo