"Perpetual motion machine inventors generally exhibit these characteristics: He has supreme confidence in himself and his (faulty and superficial) understanding of physics and engineering. He has no appreciation of, or confidence in, the powerful general principles of physics that apply universally to all systems, even systems not yet invented or tested. He is convinced that you can't declare the possibility or impossibility of something on the basis of known and well-established physics. Sometimes the inventor's own calculations are based on equations and principles of well-established physics. He's just done them incorrectly. He usually overlooked something. Sometimes the inventor assumes eccentric principles of physics of his own invention, unknown to professional physicists. He thinks that the laws thermodynamics are no more than dogmatic assertions. He doesn't understand that they are based on a solid foundation of more fundamental laws, such as Newton's laws. He doesn't realize that if his device did violate the laws of thermodynamics it would necessarily also violate more fundamental laws, such as Newton's laws of force and motion. He doesn't grasp that if his calculations, reached a conclusion in violation of the laws of physics, then we know that he simply made a blunder, neglected something, or misapplied a law. And we can know this without even bothering to check the calculations to find the specific error(s). So does he accept established physics or not? Only when its conclusions suit his preconceptions, beliefs, or desires. In short, even if the inventor "knows" some laws and principles of physics, drawn from textbooks, he's missing the bigger picture of how they interconnect, and how they are properly applied. He wears very large blinders."
I think I can believe in the possibility of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, because on the surface it does seem possible to be able to exchange electrons at a low energy level.
However, it’s just a question of how useful this reaction is and whether it can be scaled up to industrial use.
The perpetual motion machine does exist and is toroughly documented. It even has a few different names:
Socialism
National Socialism
Islam
and so on...
Wow, an entire article about Andrea Rossi, without ever mentioning him by name! I wonder what the old con man is up to these days, anyway.
I remember having to figure out the flaws in some of these “perpetual motion” devices in physics class. There is always some fundamental principle being overlooked. It’s like my son says, “Gravity isn’t just a good idea, it’s the law!”
Beautiful. Kemvo will not be amused.
He isn't an inventor, but that paragraph screams Kevmo. I'd give him a ping, but he doesn't like that.
Kevmo has never stated the e-cat is a perpetual motion machine. It consumes fuel. It is just a fuel with a very high energy density. (something like 10,000X more than gas) ;)
But using this article is not relevant to the topic. The author never mentions LENR. ‘Your’ title is misleading.
Though I don’t share Kevmo’s zeal for battling the resident luddites, I have read the report and accept the conclusions.
Kevmo will have the last laugh.
Paging Joseph Newman.....