You've gotta be shitting me?
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* something I've had on my mind for a couple of years, but not the wit to fully explain it (what was it Einstein said about truly undestanding something and being able to concisely explain it..?)
Anyway, from a slashdot article on the most recent perpetual machine you tube..
"Thermodynamics just says you can't win when you're talking about the whole Universe. Once you start to get into smaller sections of it you can increase organization locally but it is always at the expense of more global energies. Life here on Earth is an example of this - we're more organized but the Sun pumps out a lot of wasted energy to feed that organization. It's entirely possible that some kind of machine could be built to extract energy locally which ultimately has a global source but that does not mean its perpetual, the Universe will still wind down total energy wise in the global space."
I would add to this that we might have the full potential of zero point vacuum energy to mine and possibly energy stores in alternate dimensions to prospect for - so, in sum - locally, on Earth, we could certainly have what would ostensibly appear to be a 'perpetual energy machine'. Heck, harnessing gravity, in the form of wave power's almost like that, from out tiny little perspective.
- that slashdot quotes' from..
http://hardware.slas…detritus
- that slashdot quotes' from..