The idea of perpetual motion sounds great but it's just simply not true. An electric car powered this way could theoretically, as in the video, recharge its own batteries forever. But there is a reason why perpetual motion machines remain a fantasy, it's the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Some inventions may appear to run by perpetual motion, but they usually rely on a hidden source of external energy. I hope you noticed in the video how he said it's going to work, it should work, etc. But he never made the claim that it does work, or that it's being patented, or that he drives that car daily, or anything of that nature. Also, in the case of motors that use magnets to make the machine operate, well I'll explain in a minute.
Both the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics keep the perpetual motion car on youtube and not in your garage. According to part of the First Law, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed to different forms. The batteries that power an electric car only contain a fixed amount of energy, finite. Most of this energy goes into propelling the electric motor, but some is inevitably lost through friction and the recreation of momentum after a stop. The car's recharger would have to create more energy in order to keep the batteries at full capacity. No such power generator exists, nor can one be built if the Laws of Thermodynamics are true.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics also prevents perpetual motion machines from becoming reality. Part of the Second Law states that heat energy inevitably seeks out cold areas, eventually creating a neutral temperature state called entropy. This means the car will eventually stop working from a lack of usable heat energy. The motor casing gets hot during work, and some of that heat energy would be dissipated into the air, or like the host specifically mentioned, they use a fan to dissipate the heat on purpose, but it does not go back into the battery system. And since other factors such as gravity and friction would be constantly pulling on the machine, eventually all of the usable energy would be lost over time.
Perpetual motion machines would only be possible if a substance could be found that generated more energy than it used. Some inventors hoped that radioactive materials would contain these properties, but their energy is still considered finite. Remember what I said about magnets, well they have also been used to power perpetual motion machines just like in the youtube video, but their continued operation usually requires some external energy source. But regardless if they do not or do not use an outside source of energy, the effectiveness of a magnet will be lost over time, it would eventually become too weak to propel any motion.
Because scientific laws and theories generally agree that perpetual motion is impossible, patent offices are very reluctant to grant patents for such machines. Proposed machines are the only devices that require a working model at the time of patent application. To date, no inventor has successfully submitted a working model of such a machine. This is the reason there exist no patents for perpetual motion machines, because they just simply do not, and cannot, exist. The laws of nature, physics and thermodynamics would have to cease to exist before anyone could make and patent a perpetual motion machine or motor of any type.
As much as I disagree with what our government does in the world as an entity, I would have an extremely difficult time believing that our government is covering anything up, or keeping anything secret. This is another false conspiracy theory put forth usually by the same quakes that claim that perpetual motion is real, and that free energy truly exists. Well if it truly does, get a patent and I'll eat my shorts!
Scott
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