I have no knowledge about this “motor,” but not everything that burns “forever” is a perpetual motion machine.
In some cases the motion is provided by the Earth’s constant vibrations and wobble, and a large coil, a couple of diodes, a sealed battery, and a small light bulb can continue indefinitely, riding those small currents generated as the coil cuts the Earth’s magnetic field.
I have no knowledge about this “motor,” but not everything that burns “forever” is a perpetual motion machine.None of the things you mention run "forever". Just a very long time.In some cases the motion is provided by the Earth’s constant vibrations and wobble, and a large coil, a couple of diodes, a sealed battery, and a small light bulb can continue indefinitely, riding those small currents generated as the coil cuts the Earth’s magnetic field.
But the significant part is that Rossi's agent has a device that, according to their claims, can be spun up to a specified speed, and will then continue to spin at that speed for a long time (months or years) while producing Megawatts of electricity for that whole time.
That clearly falls in the "perpetual motion" category, and is clearly impossible.
Rossi's claims, by contrast, are within the realm of the possible. The only problem with them is that Rossi refuses to allow anyone to independently verify what he has. We are supposed to just trust that Rossi is being truthful.
As soon as an competent and independent organization (a university, NASA, G.E., etc.) publicly states that they have tested an E-Cat and have determined that it does produces excess energy, I will accept it.
But, after eleven months, eight or nine dog & pony shows, and a "secret" company that supposedly bought the thing, we still don't have any independent confirmation that the E-Cat does anything at all.
I'd like to see the schematic for that. Seems plausible but why would you need a battery?
Unless you have a way to make this device hover, how does it cut across the Earth's magnetic fields?