That hat sounds super cool, especially if it came out 25 years ago. Pretty impressive!
You could build such a thing forty years ago, during the Carter Administration.
Wait, are you a vampire looking for a passive way to collect blood?
I didn't know weed was legal in AustrailiaIf perpetual motion is a device where "more energy is extracted than put in" then wouldn't nuclear energy be such a thing?
Most of our tech is run by machines that produce more energy over their lifetime than we used to make them. For all intents and purposes solar power over eons is perpetual motion, and we've harnessed it since the beginning of our existence.
The first law f thermodynamics states that all energy already exists in a closed system and cannot be created or destroyed. Isn't that by definition perpetual energy, if the energy must continueto exist in one form or another? The question is only how we can make it useable.
Something to think about.
We have an effectively infinite power source available. We just need to build more collectors to convert it to useful power.If perpetual motion is a device where "more energy is extracted than put in" then wouldn't nuclear energy be such a thing?
Most of our tech is run by machines that produce more energy over their lifetime than we used to make them. For all intents and purposes solar power over eons is perpetual motion, and we've harnessed it since the beginning of our existence.
The first law f thermodynamics states that all energy already exists in a closed system and cannot be created or destroyed. Isn't that by definition perpetual energy, if the energy must continueto exist in one form or another? The question is only how we can make it useable.
Something to think about.
Haha lol it still isn't, and I can be trippin' just fine without it.
Haha lol it still isn't, and I can be trippin' just fine without it.
The position is simply that we do not know or understand all methods of energy transfer, and that it is possible to harvest more energy out of a system than we put in, by leveraging the environment. The part that many miss in thermodynamics is the statement includes a constraint, being "a closed sysytem".
It's actually very difficult to have a "closed system" that is completely excluded of the environment around it.
Likewise, the size of any system we use on earth is potentially huge, as is the amount of energy contained even within the smallest particles of matter.
The trick is simply how to make the potential energy flow from a source to a sink, and while it does so power something useful to do work on the environment to create a change in it.
Go plant a seed or roll a snow ball down a snow covered hill to see a cascading system gain energy from the environment.
Another form of "invisible but available" energy that everyone knows is powerful is lightning. We've been having that a lot around Austin lately. But just imagine that those electromagnetic reactions are occurring at a microscopic level between particles all the time, which you can see when you take a woolly jumper off in the dark, and that a Lightning strike is just a manifestation of a lot of them at once.
Now, let me give you another one to think about (but not try because it can be unsafe): if you take a 110V light circuit, connect just the single live cable to a lightbulb, and then connect the other side of the bulb to ground and flick the switch it will light up. That is because the return path back to the generator is through the ground, not via a cable like most believe. Yet another: an electron that enters a 1ft cable takes a full minute to exit the other end of the cable. Look it up.
Now there's some dispute about the duality of electrons, which is it's ability to be both particle and waveform depending on the medium it passes through. Some might consider this outrageous, but what if particles were just waveforms in the medium of space, and just observable elements of an underlying substrate of energy that supports all observable phenomenon?
Look up string theory for more.
