We all know that perpetual motion of the 1st or 2nd kind is impossible, but this has not deterred inventors from coming up with new ways to attain this dream. The US Patent Office, for instance, has granted several perpetual motion patents in recent history, against its long-standing policy. Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that inventors are getting more sophisticated. Unbalanced wheels and magnets are giving way to holograms, forcing scientists to make connections between fields that would not have been made otherwise. Perpetual motion of the Third Kind, which seeks to produce infinite exergy rather than infinite energy, has made its appearance, and it seems that new laws of Thermodynamics would need to be added in order to forbid it. This paper studies not only the "science" behind perpetual motion, but also the psychological and philosophical underpinnings of a pursuit that would not go away.

The bet between two elite intellectuals which is witnessed by more elite scientists (especially in physics) inspired the revisit of the aged topic of perpetual motion machines. The main substance in the bet, a sportive car the Blackbird, could run downwind at a sustainable faster-than-wind speed only on the wind energy induced by its own motion, which indicate the viability of the fourth kind of perpetual motion machines, a realistic one that would not need a constant energy supply from external sources while keep running without violating the thermodynamic laws. This paper elaborates the meaning, mechanism, and application potential of the fourth kind of perpetual motion machines, especially its weak type which could realistically run for a long time (years) without the need of the frequent replenishment of energy.

2010

The paper is grounded on the author's book '"Thermal Death" on the Earth and the scenario how to prevent it' (Moscow, URSS, 2009, bibl.571). While consuming energy, we finally practically all the produced energy is dissipated as heat. As the way of preventing the "thermal death" the author suggests that we should transit to the thermocyclic power engineering based on using heat circulation and build "cold storage plants" which must collect the dissipated heat and transform it into forms of energy necessary to mankind. As a rule the dissipated heat has low temperature gradients. For this reason the efficiency of "cold storage plants" of the classic type (with coolers) is too small and therefore they cannot be used as the basis of thermocyclic power engineering. This fact makes us consider the perpetual motion engines of the second kind. Having analyzed (excessively) numerous formulations of the Second Law of thermodynamics, the auth...

A perpetual motion machine is (as the name implies) a machine that moves perpetually; it never stops. Ever.

In this writing, a geometrically definitive system assembled from simple mass parts of basic mathematical forms would be presented. The definiteness of the geometrical configuration of the system as described in the writing makes it possible to mathematically determine all the dynamic parameters including the angular acceleration, either analytically or numerically. By ignoring friction, we might obtain the analytical solution of the angular acceleration of the system, from which we might find that, except for few isolated points of zero angular acceleration, this system only has one direction (clockwise) accelerations which makes those isolated points of zero acceleration to be unstable equilibrium positions, and thus once the system starts to rotate, it would keep running with ever increasing angular velocity until the system collapses due to material failure. Thus this system would substantially breach thermodynamics laws.

2013

The discussed experiment demonstrates the preservation of integrity in a prefabricated construction in the absence of visible fastening forces. It is shown that the experiment can be explained by the fact that a flow of electromagnetic energy appears within the construction. We are considering the conditions in which such flow of electromagnetic energy is maintained for an indefinite length of time.

Thermodynamics laws have been one of the pillars of the modern science and a foundational block of the modern social philosophy for centuries. Nevertheless, we do not really have logically rigorous reason to complete exclude any chance for the synthetically induced empirical laws to be locally violated somewhere in nature, even if those laws are well observed in the grand universe at large. The direct downwind faster than the wind (DDWFTTW) phenomenon that has been repeatedly observed in many demonstrations and has baffled the scientific community for more than a decade could indeed serve as an example of the nominal local violation of the generally observed thermodynamics laws, which is the manifestation of the more general mechanism in nature for nominally perpetual motion to happen. This paper would offer a careful mechanical analysis about how it is possible for the DDWFTTW vehicles to achieve the direct downwind faster than the wind effect through the unintentionally implemented self-feedback mechanism, as well as an in depth dynamic discussion on how the self-feedback mechanism would help the DDWFTTW vehicle to replenish its needed energy to make possible a nominal perpetual motion in violation of the thermodynamic laws and thus to make the DDWFTTW vehicle qualified as perpetual motion machine. Further, this paper would also discuss how the mechanism behind the originally ideal sportive DDWFTTW vehicles could be applied to build viable power generation facilities and public transportation vehicles.

Natural Science, 2012

The second law of thermodynamics, i.e. the law stating that the entropy in isolated macroscopic system can never decrease, is tightly connected to the work of the device called perpetual motion machine of second kind. Often this law is also defined as the inability to construct such a device. In the current paper we give complete, independent and consistent definitions of static, stationary and changing physical field. Based on that for the first time we give summarising, correct and complete definitions of natural resource machine and perpetual motion machine of second kind as well as motion machine of second kind in the set of tardyons and luxons. We present a principal structure of a motion machine of second kind using which we show that the Clausius statement and its equivalent statements in the thermodynamics can be violated for a practically big interval-time even under equilibrium fluctuations.

Thermodynamics laws have been one of the pillars of the modern science and a foundational block of the modern social philosophy for centuries. Nevertheless, we do not really have logically rigorous reason to complete exclude any chance for the synthetically induced empirical laws to be locally violated somewhere in nature, even if those laws are well observed in the grand universe at large. The direct downwind faster than the wind (DDWFTTW) phenomenon that has been repeatedly observed in many demonstrations and has baffled the scientific community for more than a decade could indeed serve as an example of the nominal local violation of the generally observed thermodynamics laws, which is the manifestation of the more general mechanism in nature for nominally perpetual motion to happen. This paper would offer a careful mechanical analysis about how it is possible for the DDWFTTW vehicles, represented by the phenomenal Blackbird, to achieve the direct downwind faster than the wind effect through the unintentionally implemented self-feedback mechanism, as well as an in depth dynamic discussion on how the self-feedback mechanism would help the DDWFTTW vehicle to replenish its needed energy to make possible a nominal perpetual motion in violation of the thermodynamic laws and thus to make the DDWFTTW vehicle qualified as perpetual motion machine. Further, this paper would also discuss how the mechanism behind the originally ideal sportive DDWFTTW vehicles could be applied to build viable power generation facilities and public transportation vehicles.

Fairly complete evidence of adequate principles, if Newtonian mechanics is taken into account.