Comments on: Uzbeks are first to create the perpetual engine!

By: ryan schlecht

ryan schlecht — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:36:06 +0000

i made that same thing im 27 but i created a masive presher compreser that creats air faster then u could use it giving more horse power then gas and every thing runs off it self with leftovers a kit to add to exsisting engines with out bying a new car. its up fore sale @ inventec.com

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:39:41 +0000

Yep, it’s the good ol’ 2nd law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy will always increase over time in a system. Entropy is similar to ‘chaos’, of the opposite of ‘order’. The 2nd law explains why when you pour cream in your coffee it eventually diffuses evenly, why a sand castle will erode but will never be created spontaneously, why in many billions of years the universe may eventually be a uniform and even space with no stars, planets or irregularities, and why a perpetual motion machine cannot work. I remember going over this in my otherwise kinda boring thermodynamics classes. :)

By: Michael Hancock

Michael Hancock — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:14:25 +0000

I feel the same way. While physics says it’s not technically IMPOSSIBLE to build the perpetual motion machine, there are too many factors that rob a machine of energy. 100% efficiency is not something you plug into your friend’s car and drive around, and anything self-filling must be using energy. It’s like the perpetual siphon – it only works by robbing energy from the environment, and never on a large scale. Like the bobbing bird you fill with water.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:51:13 +0000

I don’t want to disparage the boy, he sounds really bright and resourceful and I wish him the best. But there’s no such thing as a perpetual engine.