It is said that the hardest part about building a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the battery.
@Bergamot88 Жыл бұрын
Just hide it in the 4” thick base of the machine
@DubiousFIN Жыл бұрын
Damn, he hid the whole atmosphere as the battery.
@DrJams Жыл бұрын
Wireless electricity
@davidsucesso2419 Жыл бұрын
😆
@NOT-A-Monolith Жыл бұрын
You stole that from Ramzy video lol
@mikeg7845 Жыл бұрын
While definitely not a perpetual motion machine, the Elektro Dumper (45 ton dump truck with a 600 kWh battery), is an interesting parallel technology. It is the world's largest EV and it recharges itself during operations. Its designers identified a use case that leveraged the EVs regenerative braking. The dump truck, at 45 tons empty, ascends a 13-percent grade and takes on 65 tons of ore. With more than double the weight going back down the hill, the regenerative braking system recaptures more than enough energy to refill the charge the eDumper used going up.
@xlerb2286 Жыл бұрын
That is clever. Make that ore pay for the privilege of being moved to a lower elevation. My 9th grade physics teacher would approve. 😉
@xX1GuNNy1Xx Жыл бұрын
That’s actually really cool.
@nicholascurran1734 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of a system of moving ore via ski-lift style cable system. Empty containers moved back up by the weight of filled containers moving down.
@SD-tj5dh Жыл бұрын
@@nicholascurran1734 that the one Tom Scott covered in his video?
@CaseyBDook Жыл бұрын
It actually looses charge over time and is far from being the biggest electric vehicle but it is something like 90% efficient. Pretty good for a vehicle with insane rolling resistance. There is a train that might pull off 100%. Same method just better rolling resistance and a perfect location for it. The ropeways used to do the same thing and ran as long as there was weight in the descending buckets. It's an old idea we are just finding great new ways to use it. Battery technology might make the big dumper 100% sooner than later. That would open up a lot more use cases.
@chillbro101011 ай бұрын
I always remember what my teacher told us, If someone tells you that an object makes more energy than you put into it that you either have a liar or you have a bomb and either way you should run away.
@Speed001Ай бұрын
Put Perfectly
@TariqMehmood-jc3br6 күн бұрын
Must be a good time
@Roguescienceguy11 ай бұрын
Simon himself is a prime example of something perpetual. The perpetual creation of channels😂
@billhacks7 ай бұрын
His external source is bamboo underwear, waterproof shoes, and slimy green vitamin drinks.
@antarcticorb91977 ай бұрын
And one helluva annoying voice.
@albachera90albachera515 ай бұрын
Is this guy the same i see on other channels? Is he an terminator(ai) ai as a pirate will say😂
@breeze99943 ай бұрын
He's an example of narcissism and greed.
@mysticx0Ай бұрын
perpetually rehashing the exact same stories while pretending its the first time he has heard it. cant count how many times he has talked about the costa rica spheres for example....
@chrisb.7787 Жыл бұрын
I see perpetual motion machines as lessons in efficiency rather than sources of energy. The closer you get to 100% efficiency the more convincing your perpetual motion machine becomes.
@tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai Жыл бұрын
I absolutely agree!
@glenneric1 Жыл бұрын
No kidding. And that doesn't even take into the fact that people want to take energy from these systems. That would require GREATER than 100% efficiency.
@edsonluizbrasilfilho3840 Жыл бұрын
@@glenneric1 why greater than 100% efficiency? like a bike that uses no energy to spin the wheels keeps going forward indefinetely, it will go slower depending on the terrain friction but it's speed is subtracted only 1 time, so it can go forward forever, which would require infinity so to do this it must generate infinite energy with just 100% efficiency. If i am wrong please tell me because im curious
@glenneric1 Жыл бұрын
@@edsonluizbrasilfilho3840 because a bike that does nothing but go forward is not actually doing any work. If it is going forward AND powering a light bulb then it is doing work. Whenever people talk about perpetual motion they usually also mention the phrase 'limitless energy' which implies they are trying to extract work from the process in addition to merely letting it 'perpetuate'
@themonsterunderyourbed9408 Жыл бұрын
@@edsonluizbrasilfilho3840 Yeah, but try riding that bike. You'll need more than 100% efficiency.
@CeriusDeluge Жыл бұрын
I have been working on a perpetual motion machine since I was 11. The funny thing is I can't seem to stop.
@cunicularium5424 Жыл бұрын
So in other words you are the perpetual motion machine 😂
@johnchristmas7522 Жыл бұрын
Your machine, what ever you build, like all machines is WEAR.
@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын
You are a rarity amongst perpetual motion inventors: you have discovered the true meaning of the term! XD
@gosucab944 Жыл бұрын
Eh you will stop one day or the other so you aren't one either ;)
@johndeljoy8071 Жыл бұрын
If you last 182+ years consider yourself succesfull :D
@6F6G Жыл бұрын
I have an old physics textbook, the 1892 edition of Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus Thompson. In a chapter describing some of the batteries in use at the time it mentions that the Clarendon laboratory bell had been ringing for over forty years and it is powered by a Zamboni dry pile battery. This is on pages 149-150 of the book.
@hillaryclinton13145 ай бұрын
Any chance you could scan the book and distribute it?
@RWBHere25 күн бұрын
The bell of one experiment, in the U.K., has been ringing for more than 160 years, powered by the same dry battery.
@MayFly-mi7nf23 күн бұрын
@@hillaryclinton1314 do you need it? I can provide digital copy
@user-lv7ph7hs7l Жыл бұрын
You can buy the first type of clock in Switzerland. A compressible chamber holds a temperature sensitive gas resting against a large spring, winding the clock. 1c in temp difference makes them run for a day. An indoor solar and gravity powered clock. Genius, especially for 1850s.
@FluffyFoxUwU2 ай бұрын
hmm couldnt people make it so 1 C or something make it run for a week just to reduce chance it would stop because temp dont change enough?
@vink6163Ай бұрын
@@FluffyFoxUwU Yes but it would have to use special lightweight materials that would make it too expensive for anyone to afford. But don't forget a 1°C change for a day means if you have a 7°C change one day then it will wind enough for a week, so really having a 1°C change allowing one day of running time is really more than you'd usually need.
@FluffyFoxUwUАй бұрын
@@vink6163 i see
@natebardwell Жыл бұрын
I love the fact that a potential huge discovery in battery technology is hindered by the simple fact that nobody wants to stop the record run.
@NeverDieAloneMusic Жыл бұрын
By the time it stops, we might be out of fossil fuels and fully on renewables. (if we don't blow ourselves up that is)
@pegasBaO23 Жыл бұрын
They gotta know how huge of a discovery it is, beforehand
@godsinbox Жыл бұрын
Its like perpetual hiccoughing, you dont want to stop it in case its a record but you want to murder them all the same
@FedericoFavaro Жыл бұрын
To be honest I think it's quite idiotic lol I understand wanting to see how long it keeps going for, but if that machinery actually holds the key to making batteries that could last hundreds of years, maybe it would be worth it to examine the thing now rather than having to wait for potentially hundreds of years... Also considering that having more efficient energy would not be a terrible idea in this period of time
@larkefedifero Жыл бұрын
Could the batteries potentially be nuclear with a very long half-life? I know it would be before such technology was discovered, but perhaps Watkins and Hill stumbled upon a new radioactive element and at least suspected that it was a "new and different" element with *strange* "new and different" properties and used the molten sulfur to cover it up. Perhaps they tried to repeat the effects of the bell but were unable to do so and eventually just sold the bell. I dunno - just conjecture on my part! In any case - I'd say that they "virtually" cracked the perpetual motion riddle and that the Oxford Electric Bell is a "virtual" perpetual motion machine! Pretty d%mn incredible. 🙂
@devanman7920 Жыл бұрын
I think it's more impressive how this guy can perpetually keep hosting new channels.
@williamchamberlain2263 Жыл бұрын
It's the Enron of channels
@avidadolares Жыл бұрын
Its the speech affectation.
@lonnpton5239 Жыл бұрын
@@avidadolares ?
@terryvalentine369 Жыл бұрын
Kudos man, I think you’ve discovered perpetuality. !!!!!! 🤣
@enigmalfidelity Жыл бұрын
Well, when one loses credibility through simple google searches, you tend to move a lot
@DonLee19807 ай бұрын
one of my favorite engineering works is the Jaeger LeCoutre table clock, which uses the difference in temperatures to wind up tension for the clock. just 1 degree difference is enough for it to run for a day. That means the difference of night and day temperatures is enough to make it run in perpetual... until years down the road it needs a service.
@CaskStrength7777 ай бұрын
Yes! Just commented same, I have one, just saw this comment
@TheCraigy833 ай бұрын
@@CaskStrength777 Is it not practical to scale up ?
@SparkSovereign2 ай бұрын
@@TheCraigy83the engineering marvel of such things is in the efficiency of the clock in using such a miniscule amount of power, not in the level of power being extracted from the environment. It's basically like running a geothermal generator on your lawn instead of through a substantial underground depth; sure, you can technically do it, but the amount of power you generate before it requires maintenance is going to be a lot less than what it consumed to produce. These devices are basically fancy low output batteries, is another way to think about it. You could scale it up, but you'd be better off using a design made for the task you intend. Reservoir power storage, for example (use excess power to pump water to an elevated reservoir, let it fall to the lower reservoir through a hydroelectric generator when you need to draw power from it). If you want to absorb power from the environment, you're better off with solar panels, wind turbines, etc.
@robotman34745 ай бұрын
Darn you. I clicked because I thought this was Micheal from v-sauce
@czar-dasАй бұрын
Hey Usauce! Lichael here
@Shadowdaddy87Ай бұрын
Same
@Ducki-ShushiАй бұрын
Who?
@OpticalDelusionOfficialАй бұрын
He’s the new Vsauce
@inthefade Жыл бұрын
I feel like attempting a perpetual motion machine is a rite of passage for any nerd. My friends and I did when we were 11, and it was based on siphoning water into a series of sealed containers and then trying to have the final container refill the first one. It was actually a really great lesson in the futility of the exercise for us. We worked so hard on it all weekend trying to solve all the issues we encountered, but each solution created a new problem of course. We gave up and played video games.
@Sideprojects Жыл бұрын
I spent hours trying to trick the program “Crocodile Clips” into making one. Never worked, but I did have some pretty incredible flywheels on those beasts.
@angelacarville3442 Жыл бұрын
Trying is how you learn! It's not futile to experiment and come away with a negative result. It's just one more datum to wield.
@matthewyabsley Жыл бұрын
I think you became a part in the perpetual motion machine, with the planet growing more and more of you, permanently attempting the futile motion, over and over again. Until someone points out the sun is ultimately the battery in this perpetual machine...
@rgw5991 Жыл бұрын
awesome!!
@proto-geek248 Жыл бұрын
😴
@lazylazerrsp8781 Жыл бұрын
I think the most fascinating thing about perpetual motion machines is that although impossible, anything that comes close eventually reveals itself to be running on some sort of external source. Meaning eventually someone will make one again and again until we discover what energy is being inputted. If we go far enough we'd probably create a machine that runs on the ever increasingly obscure forms of energy. A radiometer runs on infared radiation but it was still an amazing discovery from a seemingly perpetual machine, one by accident. Basically any perpetual machine ends up as a measuring device for energy.
@whitekaren7742 Жыл бұрын
there would never be a real one on here !! they wouldn't allow it ! they would buy them up like they did all of the rest !! only unworking models on here !!
@Jairjax Жыл бұрын
That's a cool idea lol
@egglion7931 Жыл бұрын
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
@NoConsequenc3 Жыл бұрын
@@egglion7931 any sufficiently dumb enough person can be convinced a machine is magical
@Fitzgibbon299 Жыл бұрын
@@NoConsequenc3Any sufficiently crude magic is indistinguishable from technology.
@CamelSmokes23 Жыл бұрын
I still respect those that attempt such a machine. I know it's impossible, they (hopefully) know it's impossible, but the lengths they go to are crazy, and the efficiency of some of these machines is truly amazing. Maybe the real goal is just getting as close to 100% as possible while realizing we will never surpass it.
@DantePlans5 ай бұрын
Go back 500 years show someone a modern phone ask if it will ever be possible
@andrewdavies77205 ай бұрын
It's totally possible to have machines , based in fluid dynamics, , that have such low frictional losses that they only need generate a small amount of energy to keep the fluid moving. This energy can be found by stimulating piezo-electric crystals in the fluid flow, which exerts pressure change on the crystal. Once the fluid is at speed, it only takes a small amount of energy to keep it going that fast, and the size (and therefore potential pressure differences) of the vessel can be scaled up. More energy out than in, thanks to piezoelectricity.
@circuit10Ай бұрын
@@DantePlansFrom all we know about physics, perpetual motion (in the way the phrase is being used here) is impossible, which isn’t true for a phone. Of course, it’s possible that we’re wrong about physics (we definitely don’t have the full picture) but everything we’ve seen suggests that
@Szriko8 күн бұрын
@@andrewdavies7720 holy shit they have pizza electric crystals?
@YouTubeAccount-wx6yr11 ай бұрын
I thought I clicked a vsauce video
@AngryGamer12244 ай бұрын
yeah you're not the only one
@aleasd79053 ай бұрын
Same
@GamerGuyplays Жыл бұрын
In high School, my friend had this calculator that worked for a few months without batterys. In early march, the batterys accidentaly fell out of the device, and we ended up throwing them out due to rust, surprisingly though, it kept running. It didn't have a solar power cell, like many calculators do, my guess is that it had a weird slow capacitor, but even then, it would be incredible, considering it was allways powered on up until late december.
@brennanmercker5084 Жыл бұрын
A lot of calculators, especially graphing calculators, contain a backup battery
@renakunisaki Жыл бұрын
@@brennanmercker5084 that wouldn't be enough to power it though? Only to keep the memory alive.
@riceboiii2937 Жыл бұрын
@@renakunisaki if its a calculator for school then it probably powers itself of salty tears
@theoztreecrasher2647 Жыл бұрын
I'd say that, in addition to that marvelous calculator, your friend had found that other essential requirement - a group of very gullible mates! 😉
@TheDJLionman Жыл бұрын
@@theoztreecrasher2647 or maybe it did have a solar cell that just didnt look like one since its basically a tiny black square that might even be matte finish.
@Morbazan125 Жыл бұрын
It's always more beneficial when things are physically explained than the typical "it won't work because physics"
@TheDrexxus Жыл бұрын
Some things are so obvious and covered so frequently that it just gets exhausting to hear about, talk about, and explain to people. The correct response to anyone, in any circumstance, saying they have designed a perpetual motion machine is to roll your eyes and walk away and not to speak to them ever again as to avoid the topic of conversation drifting back to their fantastical wishes that defy reality.
@codegeek98 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the sponge thing was one I'd never heard of before, yet had the least satisfying debunk
@spongerobert Жыл бұрын
Yeah but the answer to perpetual motion is always "because physics." Even earth will eventually stop spinning. If you can maybe make a thing that moves for 10 000 years, that can almost be classified as perpetual motion because who's going to argue but then also you want to attach a load at some point so you can make that motion do some work for you and that's where it will always fall flat. The device might be so perfectly balanced and engineered that it can teeter back and forth or spin or whatever but then it's always: "Now we just need to make it 10x bigger and it'll generate free electricity" but that's not how scale really works. Eventually you get tired of explaining what is essentially the same concept over and over again and that's when you start to say "because physics"
@nibiruofficial4463 Жыл бұрын
Perpetual engine is actually exists. Its basically atmosphere check my latest video
@codegeek98 Жыл бұрын
@@nibiruofficial4463 An "atmospheric engine" is just a heat engine with the cold tank in time instead of space. In fact, that's what the *first example in this video* was... The second law isn't broken if your engine needs cool night air or a cold chamber to offgas heat into.
@balrog24011 ай бұрын
I one hundred percent thought you were vsauce
@chelseahenderson73333 ай бұрын
110% ;)
@cheekyb71 Жыл бұрын
As a New Zealander having watched a fair bit of your content, seeing a mention of us was quite thrilling, followed up immediately with a cackle at your pronunciation of "Otago"! Thanks Simon! (Oh tah go)
@Mina26511 ай бұрын
I live in Otago and I just laughed as he butchered the pronunciation 😂😂
@cheekyb7111 ай бұрын
@@Mina265 I've just listened to one of his Decoding The Unknown podcasts and he pronounced Whanganui as "wahn gah noo" - too funny!!
@Mina26511 ай бұрын
😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂@@cheekyb71
@johno95078 ай бұрын
@@Mina265 To be fair, Kiwis butcher the English language...a far cry from the heavily tones of the angelic Aussie accent. 😉🇦🇺
@huepix7 ай бұрын
@@johno9507 Tu rught Guttuh luv thu kuwu uccunt
@That1Knife Жыл бұрын
My favorite things about perpetual motion machine attempts is it just shows how much you can conserve energy or use what you have to create as much energy as possible and is really powerful in that way.
@usonumabeach300 Жыл бұрын
In 9th grade I tried to design a perpetual energy electricity generator lol. It was based around heating coils that would heat and evaporate water up to a cooling area, on the way up the gases would spin turbines to generate electricity for the heating coils, and once the vapor cooled and turned back into water it would run down back to the heating coils at the bottom, also spinning turbines on the way down to also generate electricity for the coils. Ideally it would've produced an electricity surplus to charge a battery to draw power from. Ah to be that naive again
@biggo4637 Жыл бұрын
If you reached near-perfect efficiency you would be harvesting energy from the earth's gravity well ?.?
@rubiconnn Жыл бұрын
I remember as a child getting the idea to use magnets to rotate a metal shaft to get rotational power. I had just reinvented a crappy electric motor lol.
@robot336 Жыл бұрын
THE INFINITY TRAIN IN AUSTRALIA = AN IRON ORE TRAIN THAT CHARGE'S BATTERIES WHILE IT ROLL'S DOWN HILL TO A PORT UNLOAD'S THEN DRIVE'S BACK TO THE MINE UNDER ELECTRIC POWER
@kallewirsch2263 Жыл бұрын
@@biggo4637 Actually no. The energy gained by letting the water run down is exactly the same amount of energy needed for raising the same mass of water (in the form of steam) up to the higher potential. We humans are just used to ignore some sort of energy transfers. Eg. If a machine makes some noise it can not be a perpetual motion machine, since generating noise takes energy too.
@williamwingo4740 Жыл бұрын
"Ah, to be that naive again..." You could go into politics or journalism.
@rexpayne78369 ай бұрын
My wife's nagging hasn't stopped in 40yrs, that's perpetual motion.😊
@robotman34745 ай бұрын
You forgot to start the video with “ hey Micheal here”
@Thesnakerox Жыл бұрын
I think it'd be cool to see more attempts at "Near-perpetual" motion machines. Even though perpetual motion is physically impossible, I still wonder what people could do to squeeze as much efficiency as possible out of a system...
@JeffBilkins Жыл бұрын
And there is always a chance someone might (accidentally) figure out how to tap energy from some physics effect. Like the atmospheric clock from the video was pretty clever, makes you wonder how far people got with other sources.
@spencer1980 Жыл бұрын
No it's a fun design problem. We could even do an annual design competition for it.
@D1GItAL_CVTS Жыл бұрын
I feel like that is already a niche in the already niche kinetic sculpture culture. On an unrelated note, if you managed to actually parse that fucking sentence, I salute you, cos just writing it made me feel like I'm having an actual stroke
@spencer1980 Жыл бұрын
@@D1GItAL_CVTS spaces where art and engineering intersect are lovely.
@r1nger81 Жыл бұрын
They make cool desk toys...
@adamhixon Жыл бұрын
Turns out the "dry piles" in the oxford bell are actually gifts from friendly alien visitors. They contain two small fusion reactors and detailed instructions about their operation and construction. The aliens are very confused as to why we have failed to unwrap their gifts and usher in a new era for humanity.
@grandstarstudiosFORMER-YT Жыл бұрын
Because we are stupid
@TexstyleQuest Жыл бұрын
The sad part is in a millennium when my descendants find your post and think you're a prophet
@smartassforhire Жыл бұрын
Anyone creating an perpetual motion machine would be killed by the energy industry. Because it would threaten their bottom lines. We have all been lied to for 150 years. We could have avoided oil all together starting back in 1880. Electric and steam cars existed then. But there was no money in it. Big oil. Money talks, bullshit walks. And the 'dry piles' might be radium. But I assume they used a geiger counter on it to see if it was radioactive...
@defienduser1178 Жыл бұрын
ig hab is gewossen lol
@jessematthews7294 Жыл бұрын
I can pnly assume your joking i cant stand the idiocy of believing all our advances in tech are more than human invention. Great imagination though.
@chlochlo_the_T_BAG7 ай бұрын
a super easy way to debunk a perpetual motion machine is: the more complex it is, the more energy it costs to run. more complex usually means more mechanical parts, heavier weights, bigger contraptions. which also means more air friction, friction friction, harder to move, etc etc. therefore making it less resistant to entropy and more prone to general failure.
@mumujibirb11 ай бұрын
Note: According to Veproject1, the channel description does say that the models are motorised. " My name is VALERIY IVANOV, I do models. You like them. Most of you. This channel is created for the popularization of science. I made all the machines that you see here as an educational tool. Old and new concepts of working Perpetual Motion Machines (PMM). Medieval engineering inventions. Kinetic Art objects. Models of Da Vinci inventions. Marble machines. My models of PMMs are motorized versions that were built to illustrate how they were supposed to work in the minds of Inventors. We all miss something that goes beyond the usual scientific explanations. Fundamental Science, Physics Laws and boring Laws of Thermodynamics bring the ‘flight’ of Inventors' ideas to land. Growing Technology … We live in an age of consumption. But many of us are still dreaming and believe that the era of creativity has not gone. My PMM models are built for them. I'd like to inspire you by demonstrating unworkable PMMs that have been designed centuries ago as well as recent ideas.my work" -Veproject1
@balala756729 күн бұрын
-capitalized name -6 letters on first and last name do i smell a homestuck reference
@OleJanssen Жыл бұрын
I find those devices that aren't actual perpetual motion machines but rather take their energy from unconventional sources like the Beverly Clock even more interesting than proper perpetual motion devices.
@left4twenty Жыл бұрын
there's totally an alternate reality right now where they just skipped fossil fuels and everything is running off energy gradients and some human power to kickstart
@markbrown9765 Жыл бұрын
If you don't already know about this and are interested in going down a pretty fascinating rabbit hole check out the Stirling engine.
@MrT------5743 Жыл бұрын
Since there is no "proper perpetual motion devices', anything and everything is more interesting than nothing.
@Gandhi_Physique Жыл бұрын
@@MrT------5743 May be odd, but I find "nothing" very interesting
@Xezlec Жыл бұрын
I agree! Osmotic power is my all-time favorite weird energy source. It generates power just from the increase in entropy when you let salt diffuse from salty water into fresh water. There is at least one working power plant right now, in Norway!
@marsupialdungbucket Жыл бұрын
Reputable scientists also designed and built ‘perpetual motion’ machines which they knew wouldn’t work. This was to work out exactly why they didn’t work, occasionally producing useful or new understanding. I built a replica of the perpetual motion machine in a painting at Leeds University a few years ago. It was great fun and ended up giving a lecture on it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrJ7n86lvtmznok.html The lecture explains the physics, history and background to perpetual motion machines and speculation on the one in the painting.
@jamiebennett6354 Жыл бұрын
in my novels I had elves build an amusement park ride that is a perpetual motion machine, honestly, I can not see how this won't work, would you like a description of it
@Xezlec Жыл бұрын
@@jamiebennett6354 If you can describe it precisely enough, I ought to be able to explain the catch.
@jamiebennett6354 Жыл бұрын
@@Xezlec simply put the riders get on a lift to the top of a small ferris wheel and boards a pod, there are 4 to 5 pods on this wheel (one side only) as the ride goes down at the bottom the pod will disconnect and at a slight angle by gravity rides a track to the next much larger Ferris wheel that it gets connected to (this is where the ride gets fun) because of the gear ratio the ride up is very fast, at the top, it gets disconnected again and glides down back onto the smaller Ferris wheel, so what we have is the gravitational weight of 4 to 5 pods at say including passengers 600 lbs each pod. going DOWN that will force the one pod UP to continue the ride, extra electricity is used to supply the elevator to get the rider onto the first Ferris wheel and entertainment lights
@jamiebennett6354 Жыл бұрын
I estimated it would take 2 pods to get the one pod to the top of the second Ferris wheel and one pod to compensate for the gear friction and one pod just for friction overall which leaves one pod for electricity generation. ALL of this is energized by the earth's natural gravity (won't work in space of course)
@tankimarkgraaf Жыл бұрын
@@jamiebennett6354 I like the idea, but depending on how you connect the 2 ferris wheels there is either a problem with the distance the big ferris goes, or the smaller one. If you fix that then the extra 'distance' becomes less 'power', so you wouldnt be able to keep going. I think where your idea is slightly inaccurate is the understanding of how gears (or ferris wheels in this case) work. A smaller gear needs to turn more to move a bigger one (meaning the pods on the smaller and would have to go up before being able to be used going down) or if you connect the big one on one axel to a smaller one, more force would be required to turn the bigger one so there would be no net 'gain'
@Saemsen782 ай бұрын
Saemsen is the only exception requiring a fourth law of thermodynamics on KZfaq
@HaydenX Жыл бұрын
I will say that the pursuit of perpetual motion, much as the pursuit of phlogiston, panacea, and the philosopher's stone, has been a good thing in the long run. While alchemy led to the development of chemistry, the pursuit of perpetual motion has led to discoveries in everything from machine milling techniques and lubrication to gear efficiency and photovoltaics. While the pursuit of perfection is a guaranteed failure, the pursuit itself is what holds the value.
@sethaaronweaver3 ай бұрын
"While the pursuit of perfection is a guaranteed failure, the pursuit itself is what holds the value." I love this! I don't know if it is a quote or you made it up, but I am going to use it.
@meeb_consumer3 ай бұрын
As Time approaches infinity, humanity approaches perfection. Of course, infinity is never met, but we do grow.
@PhatNguyen-ln1vm3 ай бұрын
@@sethaaronweaver kinda like "life is a journey, not a destination."
@Torby4096 Жыл бұрын
In 5th grade the teacher showed us a Crook's radiometer. I was fascinated by spinning things. Then we went to our desks and read in the science book that photons bouncing off the silver side impart more momentum than photons being absorbed by the black side. Torby, who always made many mistakes on his work and often did not even turn it in, raised his hand. "But it spins the other way." Theteacher was not willing that Torby, of all people, would point out that the book was wrong. I wound up sent to the principal over that. I keep one in the window myself.
@ZarHakkar Жыл бұрын
Did you defend Torby and call the teacher's hypocrisy? Nice
@Torby4096 Жыл бұрын
@@ZarHakkar I was Torby and none dared to defend him.
@ZarHakkar Жыл бұрын
@@Torby4096 I just read your username :(
@Torby4096 Жыл бұрын
@@ZarHakkar hehe -- sometimes I switch to 3rd person. I know not why.
@WhatIsSanity Жыл бұрын
@@Torby4096 Ah yes I have also been kicked out of class for asking good questions. Most people are still petty children that never grew up, and all teachers are people so it stands to reason you will meet teachers that get stroppy and throw a temper tantrum when you say something to confuse or contradict them.
@de57083 ай бұрын
This video clearly states that our existence in this universe will die a cold death unless acted upon by another force.
@rev.jonathanwint6038 Жыл бұрын
Don't laugh too hard at the people who try it. Because such men are Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Leonardo Vinci, Albert Einstein..
@IMKINDOFABIGDEAL13 Жыл бұрын
My grandfather was working on this on and off his entire life. Him and my grandmother moved into a retirement community and when he passed away we found out that he had rented a shop space and was still working on magnetic perpetual motion. He had all kinds of very wild stuff in there he even had a small machinists lathe. The guy that rented the other side of the shop had an electric wheelchair chop shop lol 😂
@glenneric1 Жыл бұрын
Same with me and my grandfather. Man he liked his magnets.
@IMKINDOFABIGDEAL13 Жыл бұрын
@@glenneric1 lol yeah mine had all kinds of crazy shot in this hidden workshop.
@ml.2770 Жыл бұрын
Too bad neither of them studied thermodynamics for a day. They could have saved a lifetime of wasted efforts.
@bkane573 Жыл бұрын
Don’t confuse having a hobby with believing it.
@kaldo_kaldo Жыл бұрын
I think if it uses magnets that counts as an outside source of energy. I have a magnetic "perpetual motion" machine I'd like to try to build some day, see if it at least works, even if it's not truly perpetual.
@harrisonbergeron9764 Жыл бұрын
"Lisa, get in here! In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics" -- Homer Simpson.
@angrydoggy9170 Жыл бұрын
If I could get my hands on that bell, it would get disassembled in no time. There’s no point in keeping it running as a novelty.
@katofmine11 ай бұрын
“The makingest part of perpetuating a hiding machine is battering the hard.” - Marylin Manson’s missing rib
@deividasb Жыл бұрын
Very similar to the Beverly clock, well established swiss watch maker jaeger lecoultre made a table clock in the 1970s called the atmos vendome. It was said that the perpetual movement worked with a difference of about 1 degree Celsius and that the gas on the inside would Last for about 300 years. Pretty incredible stuff!
@SirMorganFlint Жыл бұрын
Not very sure (I can't remember where I read it), but I think the working principle of the Atmos clocks is atmospheric pressure variations, and not (maybe not only) temperature variations, hence the name "Atmos"
@theoztreecrasher2647 Жыл бұрын
@@SirMorganFlint pv = nrt Alla same ting, M'lud! 😂😂😂
@Opus313 Жыл бұрын
Some might say that Simon is in perpetual motion with all his hosting duties on so many channels!
@jiversteve Жыл бұрын
Who let Clarkson in here?
@Dr.RichardBanks Жыл бұрын
@@jiversteve GOLD 💀.
@TechnocratiK Жыл бұрын
I honestly thought this was Today I Found Out until I read this comment.
@egauci1 Жыл бұрын
But Simon isn’t a closed system 😂
@ronaldcuthbertson3495 Жыл бұрын
Perpetual hosting machine
@zackmackin11313 ай бұрын
the hardest part about building a battery is hiding the perpetual motion machine
@kippensnor41983 ай бұрын
😮
@blazeplayz3675 күн бұрын
This dude looks like he’d say “Hey VSauce, Michael here, did you wash your tea today?”
@greentoke4589 Жыл бұрын
I've actually already invented a perpetual motion machine, now if I could just get this frictionless bearing to work.....🤔🙄💯
@stefanpredl6849 Жыл бұрын
Extreme cold magnets or something
@BadBrucey Жыл бұрын
Keep at it buddy. I believe in you.
@DespaceMan Жыл бұрын
@@stefanpredl6849 Super conductor magnets
@dikkie1000 Жыл бұрын
@@stefanpredl6849 Those would serve a second benefit, supercooled so it uses less power, but also to condensate the air and making it a vacuum so less air resistance.
@macalmy6750 Жыл бұрын
The maddening thing about that see-saw balance is that the position of the balls are pretty much at all times opposite of where they would need to be to make it run. It is true that the center of mass is off center, but it's off center on the side that would prevent rather than cause motion, and you don't really need to have a physics degree or even have taken a year one course to see it.
@Rudy97 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the balls roll down and then somehow make the thingy pivot and lift them back up.
@ARM0RP0WER Жыл бұрын
@notfiveo ha
@Kevin-dt9xm Жыл бұрын
Exactly. The balls both go to the right, shifting the center of mass to the right, and for some reason this forces the LEFT side of the contraption down with all the force of a nuclear bomb. Its obviously being operated by some mechanism under/behind it.
@wisdomandy936110 ай бұрын
This is ridiculous. The only reason we think it's impossible is because the math assumes infinite. Nothing is technically infinite so y'all looking at the wrong math.
@jeffcarey30455 ай бұрын
Wait until this guy learns what "perpetual" means.
@w8biatvrepeater6384 ай бұрын
Ditto
@thedivinityman26 күн бұрын
The sea saw guy veproject1, he says in the channel description that all his models are motorized to show how the people that made them originally thought they would work, he admits he uses motors and external power to run all the machines in his channel description.
@VeteranVandal Жыл бұрын
The fact that infinite gains would be achievable makes perpetual motion machines never die as a subject of interest. Making it their only real perpetuity...
@Gandhi_Physique Жыл бұрын
Yeah exactly. I know they can't exist.. but something in me tries to think about how it "could" be done.
@turolretar Жыл бұрын
We better think of how to extract energy from around us, I mean, there’s probably a lot out there. Also thinking about storing that energy goes hand in hand
@Gandhi_Physique Жыл бұрын
@@turolretar true energy storage is a massive issue we need to solve
@notyourdad Жыл бұрын
Maybe memes are the real perpetual motion machines.
@Havron Жыл бұрын
@@notyourdad The real perpetual motion machines were the friends we made along the way.
@Bluepeter62 Жыл бұрын
A smaller and better version of the Beverley clock is the Atmos by Jaeger-LeCoultre. Can still be ordered for a price around $ 5000. Only needs temperature changes of 2 C° or pressure changes of 5 hpa per day to run. It operates at the remarkably low frequence of 0.0333 Hz.
@Vidar93 Жыл бұрын
@R D Yeah one of those could even help run a nuclear power plant.
@Vidar93 Жыл бұрын
@R D I don't think you got the Simpsons reference I was making.
@201hastings Жыл бұрын
@@Vidar93 Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder
@danser_theplayer0111 ай бұрын
Will they accept a patent for "I shit you not, this thing will run for centuries" machine?
@drsquiddo224911 ай бұрын
perpetual motion is impossible, but the goal of attaining it has the potential to create some incredibly low loss energy solutions
@pirobot668beta Жыл бұрын
When you make your infernal machine, make two...one running clock-wise, one running counter clock-wise. Connect them together such that the rotation of one exactly cancels the rotation of the other. If both machines are working perfectly, there should be no movement in either of the machines. "But it isn't moving!" Says a doubting and cynical populace. "That's proof that it works!!" Says the crafty Inventor.
@Teh_Bean Жыл бұрын
That clock is amazing. Perpetual or not, it is an extremely unique and interesting design.
@since4everrr3 ай бұрын
This guy has so many channels but i actually don’t mind, he’s got quality stuff
@grimgrahamch.415711 ай бұрын
Prepetual motion is more than just about free energy. It's about defying the nihilistic end of the universe. To stop entropy and ensure that the flame of existence never dies out.
@MrRedeyedJedi Жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid, my attempts of over unity. I used to have something called geomag. They were magnetic sticks and ball bearings that could be connected to create structures, my parents even got me glow in the dark ones once, which I was delighted at. I suspended a floating/spinning geometric shape. Ball bearing on a ball bearing, upside down and would put the magnetic sticks around the edge at an angle then one with an opposing magnetic pole by hand against them, which would cause the structure to spin, but it would always infuriate me how it would stop spinning, no matter what distance or angle I held the magnet at.
@Necro-the-Pyro Жыл бұрын
I remember geomags/supermags. I once made a contraption like what you're describing, combined with a knex machine powered by a wind up gravity motor that would shift the magnets around the edge, allowing the suspended shape to spin for over a week straight.
@shujin7024 Жыл бұрын
what you are talking about with an electromagnet will be able to make it spin non stop ;D
@Necro-the-Pyro Жыл бұрын
@@shujin7024 yea but I was 12 and didn't have an electromagnet lol
@shujin7024 Жыл бұрын
@@Necro-the-Pyro hahaha that's fair I was imagining the contraption in my head in this is what came out. I believe you can make one but I wouldn't know how probably a variable powersupply, iron core and copper wire.
@adamplentl5588 Жыл бұрын
@@shujin7024 no, it will only make it spin as long as the electromagnet is powered and/or the equipment doesn't break down due to wear and tear. Definitely a finite limit.
@martinstallard2742 Жыл бұрын
0:58 the Beverly clock 3:12 Crookes radiometer 5:48 sponge conveyor belt 8:06 Oxford electric bell 10:42 see-saw balance
@reamick Жыл бұрын
That's Crookes radiometer, not barometer
@martinstallard2742 Жыл бұрын
@@reamick thanks for spotting that
@matthewwells2520 Жыл бұрын
Now if we can just combine the Bevery clock and the Oxford electric bell...and then find a way to draw power from them.
@nailynntynette Жыл бұрын
There is this thing called heros, and they do not all wear capes
@MarcColten7311 ай бұрын
Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics! - Homer
@davelowets Жыл бұрын
The closest thing to perpetual motion is the number of KZfaq channels Simon keeps coming up with.
@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 Жыл бұрын
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 Жыл бұрын
"You have broken the laws of physics! I shall inform the Physics Police immediately!"
@slake9727 Жыл бұрын
Love a good Simpsons' reference
@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 Жыл бұрын
@@slake9727 Thank God someone got it... I was getting a little worried there
@WizelBalan Жыл бұрын
@@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 This perpetual motion machine she made is a joke, it just keeps going faster and faster!
@rehabmax Жыл бұрын
And for 10,000 more years ( if we are are still here) people will still have the ridiculous idea of complete energy transfer between 2 objects, without ever adding energy back to the system.
@SaltyBallzz Жыл бұрын
It’s like watching people chase the end of a rainbow 🌈!
@Kyrinson11 ай бұрын
Possibly the only true perpetual motion machine is the people racing to invent the first perpetual motion machine.
@bh24x Жыл бұрын
The oxford Bell isn't a perpetual motion machine that we can tell but most certainly is a great insanity engine. that thing ringing for hundreds of years would bring any immortal to the brink of madness, Let alone us mortals who have to endure it through our lifetimes. No wonder it's behind layers of glass.
@MrWguts Жыл бұрын
Tinnitus
@chewinhard4456 Жыл бұрын
They forgot to install a snooze button 😂
@peterlang777 Жыл бұрын
also the karpen pile.
@Blasted2Oblivion Жыл бұрын
I like to imagine that a time traveler told them how to make that super battery but we as a species are so obsessed with seeing how far things can go that we didn't learn from it like the time traveler intended.
@alexturnbackthearmy190711 ай бұрын
Hardly something that hard. It is just electromagnetism and if bell is in vacuum or near vacuum it can actually run for very very long time before batteries eventually degrade enough so bell would not have enough charge to push itself. But it is easily more then 90% efficient.
@crated_Ай бұрын
I consider the planet to be a machine. Keep on spinning
@user-tq8pi8vq3fАй бұрын
This dude has blasted so much content across so many channels, the quality is plummeted to the point of his content being misinformation.
@danieljob3184 Жыл бұрын
True perpetual motion operates indefinitely & is therefore impossible as even light & heat is subject to entropy. But it is nice to see a couple of items that outlived their inventors in a world where cellphones are screwed after 2 years.
@greezooo Жыл бұрын
Time crystals seem to be unaffected by entropy... perhaps the answer lies down that emerging branch of science?
@AdmiralBob Жыл бұрын
You need to go easier on your cellphones.
@aeonproelium Жыл бұрын
The vacuum of space is not subject to entropy. Besides that we know very little about our reality and the things within it. Haven't even got passed our moon much less explored distant planets in this universe or the infinite others. So to say impossible shows a great amount of arrogance and ignorance.
@LordMegatherium Жыл бұрын
@@aeonproelium The reverse is actually more true: to assume that physics here on earth might be somehow special would need an even bigger leap of faith. Not to say it's impossible but in my limited knowledge those odds would make playing the lottery as certain as an apple falling if you drop it. There are big known unknowns like dark energy/matter or what happens at the singularity of a black hole but all in all considering we're dealing quite well with those unknowns. Maybe our math is still too weak (e.g. Einstein wouldn't have been able to "get it" without Lorentz and Poincaré using their noggins), maybe we need more weird out of the box tricks like Feyman integrals. But having said all that... there's not been a single iota of the 0th law of thermodynamics being leaky in any way. Axing that axiom (pun unintended) and still trying to make the rest of physics work on paper should be a nice excercise for a summer holiday (or a few lifetimes).
@swordzanderson5352 Жыл бұрын
@@aeonproelium That would be assuming that physics suddenly worked differently in other parts of the Universe, as if all planets didn't all form due to clumping of space matter over millennia. Sure, there could be some VERY weird matter out there, or biosystems that are vastly different to us which are carbon-based, a Universe CANNOT have two contradicting laws existing at once. Including your brain and any simulations that it can come up with, they all have to be subjected to the universal laws of our Universe.
@lukepartin6056 Жыл бұрын
If you're a perpetual motion machine, I bet 182 years goes by in a blink.
@ov3rdrive966 Жыл бұрын
lolol
@deathstrokian6976 Жыл бұрын
What’s my age again?
@RobertFleagle11 күн бұрын
The "Tesla Switch" is the cleaverist perpetual motion machine I've seen (I doubt that Tesla had anything to do with it, but it seems a rule of perpetual motionists that if your machine is at all electrical you must invoke Tesla's name). Three identical capacitors with identical charges, each with one end grounded and the other ends connected together with 2 resistors. A switching system converts it to 2 stacked capacitors with the top of the stack connected to the third capacitor through the resistors. With double the voltage at the top of the stack, current runs through the resistors until the voltages are equalized. Then you switch it back to the original configuration and wait for the voltages to equalized again. And repeat. Since neither configuration has a path to ground, the total charge is conserved so the final state has the same voltages on the capacitors as it had at the beginning. But current has flowed through the resistors which have gotten hotter Free energy which could drive a heat engine. Can anyone find a flaw it THAT? (There is a flaw but it's hard to see. No, it wouldn't actually work)
@samueljohnston963911 ай бұрын
It’s impossible to get 100% efficiency but I think the future of energy sciences is getting as close to 99.999% as possible
@liamwinter4512 Жыл бұрын
I've seen two infinity engines in my life. Both were a hybrid of solar heat collectors and geothermally managed fluids. But as long as the sun came out, his house and ranch had power. When I asked if this was "perpetual motion" he said no, that his set up was just a clever heat engine. The fella who has this setup has to be in his late 80s by now or has passed away. I often wonder what other devices he came up with.
@Mastermindyoung14 Жыл бұрын
Definitely clever, but definitely not perpetual motion. He's not in a closed system, he's using the power of the sun (like the clock with the diaphragm)
@FreightmareFTW Жыл бұрын
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@pavementsailor Жыл бұрын
Read about something like this years ago. A large tubular wheel with freon inside. Part of the wheel was hidden from the sun in a trench. Expansion and contraction of the gas off balanced it, causing it to slowly move. But with a good amount of torque, the article said.
@liamwinter4512 Жыл бұрын
@@pavementsailor lol. That was one of them. It was wild.
@zedantXiang Жыл бұрын
Imagine creating something that work by having heat above freezing,cooling the world at an incredible rate
@GiffysChannel Жыл бұрын
While researching perpetual motion, I came across something even cooler. Copper wire will actually become saturated with electrons passively. If you then introduce a current and to push all the electrons out, your device will read as outputting more electricity than was put in. This could LOOK like perpetual motion but it's obviously not. However, you could think of it as free energy in as much as a solar panel is. I would certainly like to see this idea expanded upon.
@Kevin-dt9xm Жыл бұрын
Yep, its part of the reason for voltage spikes right when you turn a circuit on.
@RobinHood-yk8og Жыл бұрын
2 projects to look at... Ambient RF energy harvesting Atmospheric Ion Harvesting
@rjflippo Жыл бұрын
Wardenclyffe Tower holds the key
@animeloveer97 Жыл бұрын
@@Kevin-dt9xm huh the more you know
@GiffysChannel Жыл бұрын
@Thunder Life Studios I think that is from oxidation. Most copper wire is covered in insulation but it makes me wonder what's going on with the electrons when the oxidation does happen. basic chemistry could explain that though.
@jblen5 ай бұрын
I hope people never stop trying to make perpetual motion machines. Not because I think it's possible, but because it's poetic.
@L-Office2 ай бұрын
Imagine just taking a thermodynamics course for a semester instead of spending years trying to defy the fundamental laws of the world.
@evanlee93 Жыл бұрын
closed system or not, these are some really interesting ways to convert energy, and definitely should have been pursued further into that field
@Sutterjack Жыл бұрын
I know it doesn't qualify as perpetual motion, but the Forterra brickworks In Claughton, Lancashire, produces 50 million bricks a year, from shale that's quarried a mile and a half away, and uses aerial ropeway that uses no power, yet moves 300 tonnes a day - pretty impressive engineering.
@mitchellw7118 Жыл бұрын
I've never heard of that, that sounds amazing!!
@gordonlawrence1448 Жыл бұрын
I think you will find that it can carry way more than 200 tons a day. For a brickworks that is a very small amount.
@Carnophobe Жыл бұрын
@@mitchellw7118 Tom Scott does a short but interesting video about it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLiZjLt6lrrKpWg.html
@mitchellw7118 Жыл бұрын
@@Carnophobe already watched it after the above comment its amazing!!
@Yvolve Жыл бұрын
This technique goes back to the Industrial Revolution. Time Team did an episode where they dug up an old mining complex and it used a system like this. Such a smart idea, taking advantage of the height difference.
@stuartwatkins171Ай бұрын
It’s impressive that you can talk perpetually without appearing to breathe.
@willmorrison1022Ай бұрын
As I see it, the real problem with building something that you think will run forever is that by the time you prove yourself right, there isn't enough time to build another one.
@markcoupe5748 Жыл бұрын
My friend can time travel. He works for the council and finishes work at 5 pm everyday yet he is always home by 3pm
@gordonlawrence1448 Жыл бұрын
I think the most hilareous was made by Heath Robinson. He was a proper engineer as well as a cartoonist. He once designed a machine to get peas onto your fork (instead of chasing them round the plate) that took up a whole room. His "perpetual motion" machine was designed so that when he jumped up and down on it weights inside fed some energy to something or other. Basically he was taking the mickey out of others doing the same and when it "refused to work" he jumped up and down on it and hey presto.
@knuckle12356 Жыл бұрын
Nowadays if you don't take the mickey out, you'll get a Cease & Desist injunction filed against you by Disney...haha, we joke, we kid. As for the rest of your story; you're thinking of Rube Goldberg devices, not perpetual motion machines. The former are needlessly complex and often silly engineering behemoths designed to perform a singular, simple, and generally useless task. "Forking" peas would jive perfectly with this description. A perpetual motion device seeks to either create energy from nothing, or seek to operate without inefficiency loss due to heat energy transfer. Which challenge the first 2 laws of thermodynamics, respectively. Neither is possible. The first will always require some sort of external energy source to maintain action. The second will always require again some external energy source to replace what's lost to heat radiation. Thanks for the story sir, but you are in the wrong line. Fill out this form and take a number for line #2.
@Spacekriek11 ай бұрын
It reminds me of another attempt at perpetual motion, a cartoon drawn of a buttered piece of bread tied to the back of a cat. Since bread likes to fall with the buttered side down it is basically in a contest with the cat who also tries to land on its feet. Voila, a perpetual motion device. :)
@alonzomaynard9500 Жыл бұрын
If a perpetual motion machine isn't possible, just what keeps the earth spinning for billions of years?
@RaymondKarlVeasey75 Жыл бұрын
Residual Energy Displacement From The Big Bang.
@missingthe80s58 Жыл бұрын
William Congreve 2nd was the man that changed gunpowder. He dragged the British gunpowder industry kicking and screaming into a new era. New retort cooking methods for the charcoal, replacing dirt mound methods of charring. New wheel mill technology replacing stamp mill technology. New high density powder pressed on 50 ton hydraulic presses. New reel mills to corn the powder replacing older screen frames and wood hammers. New polishing techniques known as glazing to stabilize the powder for storage and shipping to prevent breakdown of the powder in the kegs. The difference in quality, uniformity, predictability, stability and increased the velocity to volume ratio by nearly 50% significantly increasing the number of powder bags both field artillery and ships could carry. Dude did some impressive work.
@kenbrown2808 Жыл бұрын
when I was young, I looked to the small side of things for perpetual motion, but when I got older I realized there already exists a machine that will run until the heat death of the universe. it's commonly referred to as "the universe"
@FerretyZebra Жыл бұрын
Then its not perpetual if it stops.
@Ice_elite Жыл бұрын
@@FerretyZebra Its an experiment then will the universe stop or will we die out?
@fugnignafer5812 Жыл бұрын
Wow ur so deep
@FerretyZebra Жыл бұрын
@Lex Bright Raven no perpetual implies infinity and if there is an end then there is no infinity
@c4t4l4n4 Жыл бұрын
An interesting perspective. What powers the universe?
@rager1969 Жыл бұрын
As a kid, I remember a store at Knott's Berry Farm (outside the park, near the chicken restaurant) that sold various things like ornate candles, porcelain figurines and Knott's merchandise. They also had metal stick figure kinetic motion devices, like a guy riding a bike and other cool things. It just captivated me, but I never wanted my mom to buy one, cuz they were expensive and I knew it would lose appeal once I got it home.
@popincherries Жыл бұрын
You were a VERY self aware child.lol
@jBKht93111 ай бұрын
There was a episode of Bonanza where Hoss was getting scammed by a perpetual motion "inventor" he had a heck of a time convincing his brother and Pa. Great episode.
@jslevenson1017 ай бұрын
I figured out a very simple and powerful magnet perpetual motion machine that I cannot recall seeing. The Device is shaped like a clock (in this example, with high-power small circular magnets arranged where every second-hand mark would occur. Starting at 12 o'clock a strong magnet starts and is incremented in its magnetic strength every step of a second so that the effect of the increased magnetic draw makes the clock act like a magnet run shooting technology that increases the speed of a connected magnet piece of steel at the end of a (second hand) on a clock that would pass over all the magnets. The magnets go from 12 o'clock to six o'clock, or 60 magnets, all increasing in magnetic strength throughout the cycle. Then, the momentum of the steep projectile swings with little resistance to do the process again starting at 12 o'clock, and the speed of the device increments on each pass. Jan S. Levenson
@davidbwa Жыл бұрын
that beverly clock is pretty impressive. especially for being invented / built in the 1800s
@elgatto3133 Жыл бұрын
You can buy one like it for a few grand called JLC atmos.
@michaelcarlton1484 Жыл бұрын
To be fair, the sponge belt would be like a self-sustaining waterwheel. The necessary changes would be how the water moves back up to the top without a net loss of energy as well as making sure the sponges, or whatever substitute material is used, are completely efficient in the absorbing and disposing of water.
@DsiakMondala Жыл бұрын
Indeed, I think such a device could probably run for a very long time too after the initial push.
@Graphomite Жыл бұрын
The dried sponges with the weights pushing down are going to be considerably less heavy than the sponges with the weight+water that need to be pulled up. We know it wouldn't work, but if we're arguing if it would even be efficient, the answer is still no. There would be no way to make that work well. There'd be a major loss of energy as soon as the first rotation was made.
@DsiakMondala Жыл бұрын
@@Graphomite w8, I dont think the sponges move up right? its only the water thought "Capillary action" (Yes I had to google the name)
@AustinMello Жыл бұрын
Yea, I have to admit that the sponges make sense to me, too. I *trust* that it wouldn't work, but my mechanics-brain feels like it could get the experiment to work. Pumping water back up must be costly. I also don't know if sponges+weights make any more sense than buckets.
@TIMEtoRIDE900 Жыл бұрын
There was a wheel on the cover of a science magazine in 1982 where springs of a particular bronze alloy were arranged to pull on an eccentric. As the spring dipped into slightly warm water at the bottom it either gained or lost tension (can't remember which) that caused the imbalance, which drove the wheel. It had to be under load so it wouldn't spin too fast. The energy released was more than enough to keep the water warm. Over-Unity was achieved.
@swinginjoe84774 ай бұрын
“Perpetually motion… LISA GET IN HERE. In THIS house we OPEY the laws of thermodynamics. Now go back to your room and think about what you’ve done.”
@antoliv26683 ай бұрын
You are a true perpetual talking machine.
@Mastermindyoung14 Жыл бұрын
The hardest part about building a perpetual motion machine is hiding the batteries and motors.
@williamwingo4740 Жыл бұрын
While taking graduate-level thermodynamics three times before passing it, I learned there are two kinds of perpetual-motion machines, called creatively "machines of the first and second kinds." Machines of the first kind attempt to violate the first law of thermo by creating energy out of nothing. Machines of the second kind obey the first law, but attempt to violate the second law of thermo by avoiding a transfer of heat from a hotter to a colder body. Neither kind works, of course; but historically they have been very effective in transferring precious metals from the pockets of the gullible into the pockets of the "inventors." In some videos of the "see-saw balance," you can see the hole in the table for the push-rod that keeps it going. Another approach would be to have some iron embedded in the wooden base--maybe just a single staple at each end, or maybe the very screws holding it together--and use phased electromagnets under the table. Another historic machine used an external power source of wooden boards that warped and unwarped due to changes in humidity, but I couldn't find a reference for that one. Cheers.
@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын
Oh, now you mention it, I remember that bit about "machines of the first and second kinds," and the crack about transferring precious metals. I'm sure it was in one of the innumerable books I read when I was a kid, likely an old one.
@peterpemrich69628 ай бұрын
9:48 the way he says "exactly what the battery is made out of" is very satisfyingly sounding.
@juliegale38635 ай бұрын
As an ordinary personI with no mechanical education I always understood there could never be a perpetual motion because eventually the substance it was made of would wear away and the machine would stop. Love your videos.
@hasnatkhan2099 Жыл бұрын
I've read an interesting way for infinite energy in a (fictional) book I've read. It was basically two portals facing each other, like how it would be if it was an infinite fall, with light shining through them. The trick is that one portal actually sends it back in time a little bit. So in the present, the energy between the portals is both from the original light and the light that was sent to the past, thus creating infinite energy. This probably isn't very realistic, but I thought it was pretty cool.
@shujin7024 Жыл бұрын
well the first step in the working of your device is moving matter and wave instantly from point A to point B and the second step is a time machine. I think only with one of those two discovery one would be able to create infinite energy. Portal one on top of the other with a jet of water going down and a generator to aquire the power. Or charge a battery and send it back in time full.
@chrischeetham1652 Жыл бұрын
I gotta say, though fiction, at least it's something I can wrap my head around. Like, sure, if those things were attainable then that seems like something that would work. I've read some crap that I almost thought perhaps running head first into a brick wall a couple times before reading might help to make things somewhat believable, but idk, maybe im just weird. I really do judge fiction on it's believability....if it's completely ridiculous and "just because" is the explanation behind said ridiculousness, it just falls flat for me. Well, I've gotten off subject enough. Time to take my Adderall so I don't become perpetual...
@hasnatkhan2099 Жыл бұрын
@@chrischeetham1652 Yea I completely agree. Even if fiction novels don't have to follow all the laws of physics of the real world, it should at least be self consistent and logical.
@supC_ Жыл бұрын
@@shujin7024 I can guarantee you that even if we could make portals, keeping them open would use waaay more power than the water turbine could ever generate. (currently the prevailing theories state that opening a wormhole (closest known thing to a portal) would take more energy than exists in the known universe iirc) I actually suspect that that would not only not be a perpetual motion machine, but orders of magnitude less efficient than just boiling the water so that it rises as steam. (The current most common method of power generation)
@vyor8837 Жыл бұрын
@@supC_ depends on the exact theory you go with for their creation
@dudewatevs56 Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't it be funny if it turns out that the sulfur coated batteries are actually smaller perpetual motion machines that power the bell? We'd simply never find out because it would never stop ringing for us to disassemble the batteries.
@TheWinjin Жыл бұрын
I think with advances in xray, MRI and the likes, we will probably have a look inside in a hundred years or so. But the idea is hilarious. People look inside, and in ten years it's a Star Trek Space Communism with Free Energy for everyone, powered by cold fusion and those little Oxford batteries.
@alexsiemers7898 Жыл бұрын
@@TheWinjin or the entirety of Oxford gets “mysteriously destroyed” within a month of it happening
@nspread89537 ай бұрын
Here’s the real question. How would we know that perpetual motion has been achieved? The device could just be so efficient that it’s hard to measure it’s gradual loss of energy over time.
@caldeira_a6 ай бұрын
we don't have to see it stop, just have to see where it loses energy to
@yimwee24013 ай бұрын
The bell is incredibly intriguing, now I have to go see it before it stops ringing
@chrischandler889 Жыл бұрын
I tried to build one on a ferris wheel looking thing I built with magnets that repelled each other. Many years ago i swore I could possibly get it to work but couldn't. I thought about both having a timing gear to change the magnets positions at certain times and even electromagnetic with timed electrical bursts. I never finished and it has been in the back of my mind for many years. Would be fun to retry if only for fun.
@volvo09 Жыл бұрын
people have made some pretty impressive designs like that over the years. but in the end.... they don't work. the energy you put into turning the magnets over is lost energy every time (or added energy if you use a battery). they're still cool to look at though.
@Yezpahr Жыл бұрын
@Chris Chandler The reason the ferris wheel type is so interesting is because inertia is something our brain (still) doesn't automatically calculate when we look at something. Ballistic paths, where something goes up and must come down is easy for us to subconsciously grasp, but "motion"? Our brain only "sees" motion/momentum/torque. But rotational inertia is an odd one, and that's what kills a Ferris Wheel type of Perpetuum Mobile machine.