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perpetual motion machine

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Noun1.perpetual motion machine - a machine that can continue to do work indefinitely without drawing energy from some external sourceperpetual motion machine - a machine that can continue to do work indefinitely without drawing energy from some external source; impossible under the law of conservation of energy
machine - any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks


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A Perpetual motion machine is a machine used to provide affordable and almost cost free energy that if utilized properly will be available for the use of humans This perpetual motion machine is difficult to conceptualize and take years and even decades to come up with A Perpetual motion machine is a machine used to provide affordable and almost cost free energy that if utilized properly will be available for the use of humans.
Efforts by geoscientists to find reliable short-term warning signs of ruptures in the Earth's crust have been no more successful than attempts to build perpetual motion machines, find Jimmy Hoffa or make money from cold fusion.
For years scientists with more brain cells than you, George, have tried to invent the perpetual motion machine which would produce more energy than the energy you put in and it can't be done.
 
 
 
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