perpetual motion

This article showed up a couple of days ago as I was searching for something else. http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/04/15/breaking-news-over-unity-reactionless-generator-invented-in-india/ Here is one quote: "The universal matter is created out of prana since prana is aakaash in...

This idea is a strange one. By making "funnel shaped holes" in gold foil it would be possible to create pressure differences that would enable energy to be produced with no input. Is the inventor's confidence that this device could be made to generate free energy misplaced? If not, why not? See...

A spam I got today - I had not see this version, and came up empty searching for it here. http://hendershotmachine.info/ Loud infomercial selling plans for building it yourself. Can anyone verify the clippings as being real or faked?

Hi. I saw this: http://joco913.com/news/blue-valley-senior-is-on-the-verge-of-a-quantum-leap-for-science/ What do you think? Obviously, I'm pretty sure it's not going to work. They don't seem to get that quantum mechanics obeys the laws of Conservation of Energy.

If you come from Finland, lets help me and translation my text. I know, it is very interesting and good text. . Perpetual motion in a dense and less dense Business / movement through a greater density is lower than in less dense. If the target is thick enough, it will be able to stop the...

I am not sure if this belongs in this topic or in General Scepticism but here goes I have been asked (by someone I cant easily refuse) to study a claim by an "inventor" who has developed something that looks suspiciously like a Perpetual motion machine. Being unable (at this point) to give my...

Have run across a toroid-within-a-toroid over-unity device referred to as a "Gabriel Device", thought I'd find here why people *think* it works (that's the fun part with these things, isn't it?), a bit of searching here didn't turn anything up. Searched on: "Gabriel Device" "two toroid" "bi...

About 15 years ago I read a book by a Hungarian author about mysteries. In that book, there was a brief description about an inventor in the U.S. who invented a free energy machine. Obviously I was excited, and ever since I have read that half page, I was trying to get more information about...

http://kalireview.com/MagneticElectricityGenerator/ Anybody know anything about this? Is it legit or pseudoscience?

http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2010/12/25/karpen-pile/ A "battery" that's been producing electricity since the 1950's.... This sounds like total BS. I wonder if this qualifies for the MDC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hHfkK4iGBQ&feature=channel I just want to know your thoughts on this video and its related subject. I'm not too sure if this is an example of a perpetual motion machine though.

My friend and I are both sceptics. We both consider ourselves to have a mind geared for science. We both love physics. I believe in well established laws such as the conservation of energy. My friend believes in anti-gravity, chi, and Overunity (free energy). We oddly both get our beliefs...

Thrust without propellant http://emdrive.com/ Explanation: This system claims to create thrust from a closed system. A resonant cavity is pumped with microvaves. The cavity is conical, which causes a difference to be formed in the group velocity of the waves at both ends. This difference...

China claims to have confirmed the theory behind the EmDrive. If true, it could be a pretty big deal for satellites and in the space race. Of course this is the same China that put out a press release of their successful rocket launch before it happened. Previous discussion on the emdrive: here

Last night I was at a family function of my wife's. A friend of their family was talking to me, and he's actually a nice guy that I've met a few other times. We talked about the usual stuff, eventually getting to high gas prices. He then started explaining to me how there are already people...

Perperpetual motion machine $25 (batteries not included!) Seems a strange PM machine that needs batteries! If you want one then www.grabitnow.com are selling them for 24 hours only. Unfortunately they don't ship to the US. Features: * 269 snap-fit parts to assemble * Motor-driven...

Has anybody heard of this book? Or familiar with the concept? Here we go again.. Apparently I am working with a guy who claims to be in on it... Sigh

http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/300042

While browsing for hovercraft design, the name "Searle" came up along with references to a "Searle Effect Generator", or SEG as he calls it. Most of the site smells con-ish: only vague references to testimonials, need to pay him $50 to join his "forums" and/or gain access to the "really useful...

I know that perpetual motions are impossible but has any good come from the search for said unworkable devices? Any discoveries etc?

Reading SWIFT got me thinking about perpetual motion machines. If you could actually create a machine that outputs >100% of it's input, what would stop you from feeding the output back to the input and creating infinite energy instantly? The entire universe would be destroyed! I wonder if...

In the commentary of 27 July 2007, Mr. Randi wrote: The subject matter of the commentary to which Mr. Randi links is actually described in the April 19, 2002 edition of Swift, and it has nothing to do with perpetual motion. It is a silly idea, and a silly patent, yes; but it is not related to...

Professor Sir Eric Ash just wrote a column on the Steorn device: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6283374.stm Two telling elements in that story: and He does not know where the energy comes from, and only has a vague hypothesis about it. He doesn't put forth how the device converts...

The Irish technology company, Steorn, has made the claim that it has achieved over-unity; the ability to get more energy out of a device than is put in - a clear violation of the laws of physics as they are currently understood. In spite of making this claim, inviting scientists from around the...

I've been reading up about Steorn, Perendev, and the rest. I don't know why I am so fascinated by them, but I am. Am I alone? I seriously doubt that there will ever be any actual product (that works as described) created by this crowd. But I am still very curious as to what goes on in the mind...

I've designed a free energy machine, and constructed some of the parts for the device in my workshop. The power source for the motor is a quadrupole magnet, which are worth over $10k per magnet. They are not sold to the general public and are only used in classified and restricted nuclear...

Hi all. I'm a noob here, a 41-year-old engineer and fan of Randi. Just to get this out of the way, I'm building a "PM machine" that is guaranteed to fulfill its purpose: to fail and teach me something about physics. I've built several and have a better, "hands-on" understanding of the universe...

Through time the Perpetual Motion Machine (Perpetuum Mobile Machina) has turned a myth and whenever he appears somebody that says to have solved the problem nobody perturbs at least in analyzing the data, the scientists are even skeptical towards this type of devices. According to the laws of...

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GREETINGS AND WELCOME TO THE FIRST POST!!! Well, it's been quite a day here at JREF, and I cannot imagine a better way to introduce all of you (though many of you don't need any such introduction) to the way Challenge applicants handle themselves when confronted with the Challenge rules, and...