Free Energy? Perpetual Motion?
Energy is becoming more and more expensive these days. Whether electricity, gasoline, LPG, etc… the prices always goes up. I’ve browsed a lot of websites claiming they have discovered free energy, or perpetual motion. None of them are real, they just want to make false hopes to people.
Perpetual Motion. It has been a long dream for scientists to discover a device that can produce perpetual motion, since Archimedes to Da Vinci, until now. I also wanted to somehow make a perpetual machine, that is for the benefit of mankind. But it seems to be very impossible for me to attain such discovery. First of all, perpetual motion will defy the law of conservation of energy and the second law of thermodynamics. In layman’s term: Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but it can only be changed from one form into another. And: The ENTROPY of a system that is not balanced, will tend to increase (entropy) until balance is achieved.
It’s really impossible for one to create perpetual motion devices. When you say perpetual motion, it means that it will never stop forever (or at least a decade or two). There are some devices that uses "magnets" as a means of perpetual motion. Yes, it may seem to move endlessly, but wait until the magnets looses it charge it will eventually stop. Permanent magnets aren’t really permanent. You can use it in a few years, reaping the energy from it, but when the magnet’s energy dissipates, it would cost more to replace the magnet than using your household outlet.
Looking at a bigger picture, some say that the Earth is (seems to be) moving around it’s orbit endlessly. But least you know, that the Earth is slowing down. Maybe in a couple of trillion or quadrillion years, Earth will eventually stop orbiting. Well, before that happens our sun will be dead by then. So, even the universe cannot exhibit any perpetual motion, how can we?
Free Energy. This term is very tricky. For me, "Free" means "Free Source" of energy. I can agree to that, there are tons of Free Sources of energy, such as hydro electric Power Plants, geothermal, Solar Electricity, etc… Energy may be free but the facility to extract that free source is very expensive. Especially if you would add the "Standards of Living" of the people who invest on those facilities. All they want is profit. Eventually, energy is not cheap anymore. We are surrounded by limitless energy, from the winds, to the electromagnetic fields of the Earth. We can harvest those, only if the facility to harvest those would be cheap. I know someday, there would be a simpler, cheaper, device that can harvest those free energies
