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I give you the perpetual motion machine.

"But Chris. Scientists have been working on trying to figure out the perpetual motion machine for like...forever. Why do you think yours is going to work?"

Because mine makes perfect sense.

So you may be asking yourself. How does this perpetual motion machine work?

The answer is that the perpetual motion machine is a pendulum.

"But Chris. Pendulums already exist. There is a pendulum in that noisy ass clock you have downstairs."

Yes, there is, and that is part of the reason I feel that this will work.

The pendulum in the clock continues to tick because there are gears and springs and mechanical pieces that keep the pendulum in motion. I have replaced those gears and springs and whatnot that would have had to have been wound, with a pair of magnets.

"Magnets? How will that work?"

The general idea is that when you take a pendulum and let it go from side to side it slowly loses momentum because gravity tells the pendulum that it wants to be straight up and down, and because the air puts up a certain amount of resistance (though if that air wasn't there the pendulum will still be effected by gravity, a force that wants to keep it one way, and would lose it's momentum).

The idea with the magnets is that they will have enough pull to return the momentum to the pendulum, without exerting so much pull on the pendulum that the actually meet. So as the pendulum nears the magnet, it gains some of it's momentum, but the magnet doesn't exert enough power to completely overpower gravity, so it falls back towards the other magnet.

Each time the pendulum falls it loses some of it's momentum, attempting to stay level with the ground, and each time it rises, while it would normally rise to a hight less than what it was originally dropped from, the magnet lifts it to the height that it was dropped from. This allows the pendulum to return to it's journey as if it was just dropped.

The problem with this perpetual motion machine is that it is going to be very touchy, and sensitive to pretty much everything. Any shake to the surface it's sitting on and the momentum is altered simply because a new force was introduced.

This means that while in ideal circumstances it could maintain it's motion forever, in the real world it is hardly practical.

However, there is another possible solution.

If I have the pendulum also generate electricity in some way, and used that electricity to power electro-magnets, adding a switch at the top of the pendulum which would switch which electro-magnet was on, this would produce a perpetual motion that would be more powerful, more useful, and more reliable.

Why is that you ask?

Because the problem with the regular magnets is that they require a very delicate balance. They need to pull the pendulum up but no more than when it was originally dropped or the pendulum gains more momentum and eventually sticks to the magnets. Similarly, they can't exert any less pressure on the pendulum than the original drop or the magnets won't be enough to keep the pendulum going.

In the case of the electro magenets they can exert more pull on the pendulum than the original drop while they are on, and as long as the pull that they submit the pendulum to after that is low enough to allow the pendulum to fall, it will continue.

The difficulty is in getting enough electrical energy out of the kinetic energy of the moving pendulum to offer this force continually.

Now that I've given you a crude drawing of my perpetual motion machine, I challenge you to think on the topic, after all, if we can come up with something that is in perpetual motion and can generate more energy than is expended in keeping it in perpetual motion, then we have solved the world's energy crisis.

Description
I give you the perpetual motion machine.

"But Chris. Scientists have been working on trying to figure out the perpetual motion machine for like...forever. Why do you think yours is going to work?"

Because mine makes perfect sense.

So you may be asking yourself. How does this perpetual motion machine work?

The answer is that the perpetual motion machine is a pendulum.

"But Chris. Pendulums already exist. There is a pendulum in that noisy ass clock you have downstairs."

Yes, there is, and that is part of the reason I feel that this will work.

The pendulum in the clock continues to tick because there are gears and springs and mechanical pieces that keep the pendulum in motion. I have replaced those gears and springs and whatnot that would have had to have been wound, with a pair of magnets.

"Magnets? How will that work?"

The general idea is that when you take a pendulum and let it go from side to side it slowly loses momentum because gravity tells the pendulum that it wants to be straight up and down, and because the air puts up a certain amount of resistance (though if that air wasn't there the pendulum will still be effected by gravity, a force that wants to keep it one way, and would lose it's momentum).

The idea with the magnets is that they will have enough pull to return the momentum to the pendulum, without exerting so much pull on the pendulum that the actually meet. So as the pendulum nears the magnet, it gains some of it's momentum, but the magnet doesn't exert enough power to completely overpower gravity, so it falls back towards the other magnet.

Each time the pendulum falls it loses some of it's momentum, attempting to stay level with the ground, and each time it rises, while it would normally rise to a hight less than what it was originally dropped from, the magnet lifts it to the height that it was dropped from. This allows the pendulum to return to it's journey as if it was just dropped.

The problem with this perpetual motion machine is that it is going to be very touchy, and sensitive to pretty much everything. Any shake to the surface it's sitting on and the momentum is altered simply because a new force was introduced.

This means that while in ideal circumstances it could maintain it's motion forever, in the real world it is hardly practical.

However, there is another possible solution.

If I have the pendulum also generate electricity in some way, and used that electricity to power electro-magnets, adding a switch at the top of the pendulum which would switch which electro-magnet was on, this would produce a perpetual motion that would be more powerful, more useful, and more reliable.

Why is that you ask?

Because the problem with the regular magnets is that they require a very delicate balance. They need to pull the pendulum up but no more than when it was originally dropped or the pendulum gains more momentum and eventually sticks to the magnets. Similarly, they can't exert any less pressure on the pendulum than the original drop or the magnets won't be enough to keep the pendulum going.

In the case of the electro magenets they can exert more pull on the pendulum than the original drop while they are on, and as long as the pull that they submit the pendulum to after that is low enough to allow the pendulum to fall, it will continue.

The difficulty is in getting enough electrical energy out of the kinetic energy of the moving pendulum to offer this force continually.

Now that I've given you a crude drawing of my perpetual motion machine, I challenge you to think on the topic, after all, if we can come up with something that is in perpetual motion and can generate more energy than is expended in keeping it in perpetual motion, then we have solved the world's energy crisis.