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agreed. didnt he invent a perpetual motion machine years ago using magnetic flux? its only now people are looking at them again and realising they work.
Perpetual motion machines violate several basic laws of physics. Literally the only way something can achieve perpetual motion is to experience zero frictional force. This condition can NEVER be physically met, hence perpetual motion machines are impossible.
Clearly with an external force inputting energy into the system then motion can be maintained in defiance of friction, however eventually at some point in time the external source of energy will no longer be available (it will all have dissipated as heat - due to the friction previously mentioned) and the motion will cease.
The closest thing to perpetual motion you'll get is the constant jiggling around of individual particles, but even this will eventually stop due to heat death (2nd law of thermodynamics) in an infinitely expanding universe.
I find it amusing that 99.9% of all the people who tout the possibility of perpetual motion machines are people who know next to nothing about fundamental physics. It seems odd for people not to do some basic research and look for themselves to understand why it can't happen.
The other 0.1% are knowledgeable people who have made a huge mistake somewhere in their calculations.
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