Perpetual motion, the dream of every inventor and the impossible dream, at least according to science. I remember seeing a wheel that had slots on the inside where heavy ball bearings would shift their weight as the wheel turned. It was billed as a Perpetual motion machine and was on display at the Ripley Museum. I was only about 8 years old at the time and was very impressed, it seemed to me that the wheel would turn forever. I didn't realize at the time, that each time a ball bearing shifted it produced a miniscule amount less of energy and at some future point the wheel would stop. Strictly speaking there can NEVER be a perpetual motion machine because it would stop sometime, even if it made it to millions of years. Friction would eventually stop it, if it was mechanical, power would run out if it was powered by something and if it were solar powered, eventually the solar cells would deteriorate. Right now, we have the capability of building a small machine that could last for thousands of years, if it were to use a small amount of atomic power and not have moving parts. An example of this might be a tiny clock with a big nuclear power source.

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The thought of building a Perpetual motion machine has been in the heads of men for quite a long time. A lot of names are connected with trying to build a perpetual motion machine. They were people like da Vinci, Villand de Honnercourt and Arnold Burke, to name a few over the ages. Unfortunately there has been a lot of fraud in more recent times, concerning such a device. A device has been demonstrated called the Kipper motor. It was designed by Marcus Kipper and is said to put out about ten times the power that is put into it. It runs on a 12 volt battery and has a motor that turns an alternator. There are many other electrical parts that I won't go into, but the end result is power in, more power out. While this is not technically a perpetual motion machine, it does seem to fall in that rather loose category. Physicists state that you can't get more out of something than you put in. A person who tested the device and bought plans, claims that there are microwaves being broadcast to the device to make it appear that it is putting out this power. It is said that this increases the output from .5 amps to 7 or more. Of course I am just reporting this and know nothing about the machine, I just thought that it was interesting to mention. To see more about it, just go to http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2005/01/07/6900052Kipper_Tricks/index.html *You can copy the address and paste it into your browser.

Perpetual Motion Machine

An Indian mathematician named Bhaskara from the 12th century, not to be confused with the Indian mathematician Bhaskara from the 7th century, was said to have invented, what might be the first, perpetual motion machine. At least he thought that it was perpetual. It was a wheel that had jars attached to it that were partially filled with mercury and were attached in a special way as to follow the wheel's curve. As the wheel rotated, the mercury flowed in such a way that the wheel continued to turn. He never built the actual device. It was important to tell you about this machine because Villand de Honnercourt, in the 13th century, became famous because of his plans of a similar machine. It used hammers instead of jars and as the wheel turned they would strike it making the wheel continue to turn. According to historical accounts, Villand de Honnercourt showed utter contempt to those that actually tried to build such machines, the contempt of a man who had already accomplished the task. No,it is believed that he never built an actual machine either, but there is a small chance that he might have.

Leonardo da Vinci was interested in this type of machine. Leonardo compared people that were trying to develop a perpetual machine to alchemists and stated, "oh, ye seekers after perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you pursued? Go and take your place with the alchemists." It is said that he regarded these people in the same way that we would regard someone who was trying to cheat people out of money. Leonardo was very interested in the so called wheel shaped perpetual motion machines. He analyzed them and showed why they could never work. Basically he showed that eventually the wheel would stop. So why did Leonardo have 2 drawings of water wheels that seemed to show that they were conceived on the principle of perpetual motion? The drawings in his notepad never went into detail and one has to guess a lot, when trying to figure out the intended purpose of an invention or how it worked exactly. The drawings were of a waterwheel that had a long circular pipe attached to it that ran down to the river. When the wheel, which was a sort of paddle wheel, was started, it had a gear on it that was attached to the pipe which pumped up water that turned the wheel. It seems that Leonardo didn't understand that the turning of the wheel couldn't be maintained this way, or maybe he did and abandoned the project, there is just no way to know. No one in Leonardo's time understood the concepts of momentum, force and energy, not even the great master inventor.

In 1977, Arnold Burke, who claimed to be very religious, developed what he claimed was a perpetual motion machine. He named it Jeremiah 33:3. It was a self acting pump and he was able to collect over $800,000 dollars from investors. A test of the pump was conducted in 1979 and supposedly a hidden power source was found in it. The next thing Burke had to raise was the $250,000 to pay the fine on his fraud conviction. Burke always claimed that his device did work. In the same vein, there was a man named Otis T. Carr who claimed to invent a flying machine that used an antigravity motor. He went as far as to say that he could fly to the moon and back in 7 hours. The engine had 2 parts that resembled two spinning tops that were spinning in opposite directions. He claimed that he got the idea from Nikola Tesla, the electrical genius. He was supposed to launch a model of the ship in front of a crowd of hundreds, but it kept getting put off. One of his employees announced that he was going to the moon on December 7, 1959 and would be back in about 7 days. On June 2, 1960, Carr got very distressed by the fact that it was being said that his trip to California was for the purpose of selling stock. The U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission had an injunction placed against Carr, ordering him to stop selling unregistered stock. In January of 1961 the Attorney General Of New York, Louis J. Lefkowitz said that Carr had swindled $50,000.00. True Magazine called Carr a hoaxer.

Even the Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce gave a reading on the fact that there would be a fuel less engine invented. This is a perpetual motion machine in my book, but maybe he meant something else, maybe he meant an engine that you would not have to purchase fuel for. Actually that is a big difference, because this could mean a solar powered engine or one like the engine invented in India that runs on compressed air. He did say that there would be some sort of compression drum and that the vibrations of the air would force them into the drum, which would create energy. Cayce stated this motor was not perpetual, because it must be started, but that once started it would run on its own power. Here is the problem, he stated that it would be finished in 7 or 8 days from his prophesy and that was many years ago. If he was right, the invention was kept secret from us He was asked if Hoover, the former FBI chief, had knowledge and replied, that this was a good place to go. As far as the machine goes, Cayce said that a 400 hp version would weigh about 200-300 lbs. and would spin a prop that was ten feet long at the rate of 4,600 times a minute and that the machine could be scaled up for infinite power.

Viktor Schauberger was one of those scientists that worked for the Nazis during World War II. He worked so hard developing machines, that he landed up in a mental institution for awhile. He is the inventor of the Repulsion. The Repulsion is a flying saucer that has an engine that claims to be able to maintain its motion, once started. It is a little hard to describe and understand, so I will try and make this as simple as possible for you and me. The engine is known as an Electro-Aero-Dynamic device (E.A.D.). It uses a Coanda effect. This is the tendency of a stream of fluid to stay attached to a convex surface, rather than follow a straight line in its original direction. This is based on the Bernoulli principle. The E.A.D. effect is a high speed vortex that is produced in a chamber. It produces an electric charged separation effect. This effect is called the "the diamagnetic effect ". When these two effects are combined, he stated that they produce an implosion effect. When in high speed the chamber produces electrostatic particles, this makes the Repulsine glow due to ionization. The flow keeps going until the engine is shut off. This is what Schauberger stated anyway.

Will we ever be able to have a perpetual machine? Science says absolutely not, but do we really need one? The answer to this is simple, NO! If we had a machine that could go for even 5 years and then be restarted again, wouldn't that be almost as good? I think that the key thing here is that you don't want to use fuel. We do have some machines that have been going for years already, without fuel. Just take a look at the big dams. They have generators that are powered by gravity. Water falls and hits a wheel that turns a crank that then operates a generator. There is no burning of fuel anywhere and the only time the machine stops is for repairs or upgrades. So we may not have a perpetual machine yet and may never have one, but as solar and wind power come into more and more use, along with other forms of renewable energy, we may not need one.

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