#perpetualmotion — Public Fediverse posts

#energy101
1) Thane Heins claims to have won a Nobel Prize (He has not.)↙️
2) Heins claims a perpetual motion machine. (Impossibe)↘️
3) His various granted patents are all Expired - Fee Related (ie useless)
#energy #perpetualmotion

Newton’s Cradle Isn’t Really Perpetual

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/07/13/newtons-cradle-isnt-really-perpetual/

RE: https://social.coop/@natematias/116606979531755936

"Expecting correctness from #GenAI is like expecting #perpetualmotion from a machine. Gen AI has no concept of correctness. And even if it did, GenAI favors plausible falsehoods over unlikely truths. And unlikely truths are the heart of scientific discovery. "

🎉 Breaking news: someone tried to invent perpetual motion by combining SPICE simulation, an oscilloscope, and Claude Code—spoiler alert, it didn’t work. 💡 Turns out, translating electrical engineering into "Claude-speak" is a bit like teaching a cat to fetch: adorable, but ultimately pointless. 🐱⚡
https://lucasgerads.com/blog/lecroy-mcp-spice-demo/ #BreakingNews #PerpetualMotion #EngineeringFails #SPICESimulation #ClaudeCode #TechHumor #CatLogic #HackerNews #ngated

Surprisingly Refined Perpetual Motion Device Teardown https://hackaday.com/2025/09/25/surprisingly-refined-perpetual-motion-device-teardown/ #ReverseEngineering #TheHackadayPrize #perpetualmotion #ToyHacks #BigClive #teardown

Surprisingly Refined Perpetual Motion Device Teardown - Perpetual motion devices are either a gag, a scam, or as in the case of this parti... - https://hackaday.com/2025/09/25/surprisingly-refined-perpetual-motion-device-teardown/ #reverseengineering #thehackadayprize #perpetualmotion #toyhacks #bigclive #teardown

Perpetual motion engines are devices that can provide power forever without any external energy input (Source: Filip Zieba)
#physics #engineering #perpetualmotion #perpetualmotionmachines #energy #interestingfacts #thermodynamics

Hackaday Links: November 24, 2024 https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/hackaday-links-november-24-2024/ #HackadayColumns #perpetualmotion #WardChristensen #opticalsorting #Hackadaylinks #bulletinboard #hackadaylinks #machinevision #simulation #Smartring #timepiece #wearable #openems #XMODEM #Atmos #casio #clock #KiCAD #watch #bbs #emc

Hackaday Links: November 24, 2024 - We received belated word this week of the passage of Ward Christensen, who died un... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/hackaday-links-november-24-2024/ #hackadaycolumns #perpetualmotion #wardchristensen #opticalsorting #hackadaylinks #bulletinboard #machinevision #simulation #smartring #timepiece #wearable #openems #xmodem #atmos #casio #clock #kicad #watch #bbs #emc

eternity - mikalojus konstantinas ciurlionis 1907

this person needs a longer name.

I woke up to a gray rainy morning and I'm going to be out riding my bicycle in it soon.

I love the way the light swirls before its eyes, I "get it" immediately. I love the neutral-sad expression and the crown, the fuzzy foggy rendering, light around the eyes and stars or lights , the colors. grateful to exist for a while with you.

"this thing all things devours"

#art #eternity #rain #perpetualmotion

The Latent Space Myth
https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/the-latent-space-myth
#AI #OpenAI #PerpetualMotion

Remember #Steorn?

Turned out they were liquidated back in May. Quite surprising they lasted that long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn

#science #perpetualmotion #freeenergy #bullshit

A Brief History of Perpetual Motion https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/a-brief-history-of-perpetual-motion/ #perpetualmotion #OriginalArt #Featured #Interest #Science

most definitely not a #perpetualmotion machine, but a fascinating set of design experiments that create clocks which never need to be wound and in theory could continue running forever, so long as atmospheric pressure or temperature varies around them. #clock #time #physics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%27s_timepiece

Simulating a Real Perpetual Motion Device - Perpetual motion and notions of ‘free energy’ devices are some of those pseudo-sci... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/18/simulating-a-real-perpetual-motion-device/ #perpetualmotion #science #physics

Beverly Clock
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/beverly-clock?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=31edb513ad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-31edb513ad-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=31edb513ad&mc_eid=9af44cbd05
"Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known."
#PerpetualMotion #Clock

I absolutely love this. It makes me wish I was handier. I would love to tinker with building such curiosities.

"Adam Savage critiques a "perpetual motion" machine housed at The Royal Society"
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/04/adam-savage-critiques-a-perpetual-motion-machine-housed-at-the-royal-society.html

#PerpetualMotion #illusion #misdirection

The Skeptic's Book of Lists list item of the day. From the list "Fourteen Inventors of Impossible Devices".
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#SkepticsBookofLists
#skeptic
#skeptics
#BookOfLists
#JohnWCampbell
#DeanDrive
#AstoundingScienceFiction
#PerpetualMotion

Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work?

Netta Schramm

Perpetual motion machines — devices that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source — have captured many inventors’ imaginations because they could totally transform our relationship with energy.

There’s just one problem: they don’t work.
Why not? Netta Schramm describes the pitfalls of perpetual motion machines.

#TED #NettaSchramm #PerpetualMotion #machines

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