plausible excuse for working on a perpetual motion machince, and that is to make a copy of some strange unit that has long since been laid to rest, to display as a conversation piece..... period!
folks spend countless hours trying to get to the "holy grail" of energy production, when their efforts would be far better spent on proven designs and variations of the same.
consider the following..
- gasoline engines are only about 27% efficient, diesel a bit better.. never going to get to unity on one of these things.
- electric motors are only about 93% efficient on certain applications, transformers, generators and all the rest are right in there somewhere.
so that leaves you with the need to overcome the last 7% in losses, to reach unity, let alone getting to anything that can actually run on its own and produce even a watt of power.
until one gets to zero resistance wire, zero eddy currents, zero friction brgs, and Zero windage within the machine, you will never even come close to unity.
so my question to those that insist on this endevour..... Why??
do you just feel like you are smarter, or luckier than all those that came before you? (in which case maybe you should have your head examined)
or do you just like building unusual machines? (which i don't have a problem with at all, there is at least some sort of creative release at least some sort of art to it all i guess)
bottom line to me at least is that i really like seeing those new folks come on board and start in with proven designs, and some of which they modify to fit their requirements. i also enjoy seeing all the work those that have been at this for a while, and have contributed to this board and the collective knowlege of the group. This i feel is a good thing.
but when it comes to the fringe stuff, such as perpetual motion schemes and those that make more power than they consume, i for one would like to see that sort of thing somewhere else,
i stay away from reading tabloid rags, because i am afraid of something that is reported there getting stuck in the recess of my mind , only to come up as a reference of fact somewhere, sometime,,,, with me not remembering where it came from.
i feel that all this crud reguarding "free power machines" "perpetual motion" etc. etc. fits right in their with all that stuff in the tabloids, and really has no place around folks that are serious about renewable energy production.
bob g