The Impossible Machine- Perpetual Motion Machines

Perpetual motion machine is a device or system thatresistance occurring in any machines.
produces more or as much as energy absorbed forSince perpetual motion machines do not apply the
the process, that is theoretically it should workexisting laws of nature, it is considered to be
indefinitely to give more energy than consumed. Thisunscientific, hence impossible. If we closely examine
contradicts the law of nature. Infact a perpetualcertain devices which are said to be perpetual motion
motion machine is said to violate all the three laws ofmachines, we can notice that they indeed use up
thermodynamics.some energy resulting in its working. Here are a few
Create Free Electricity at Home with Magniworkexamples of such devices.
Based on the violation of thermodynamics law,The drinking bird or the dippy bird toy uses the
perpetual motion has its own classifications.moisture in the environment for its working and by
The first law of thermodynamics states that energytemperature gradients. The difference in vapour
can neither be created nor destroyed, butpressure and temperature gradient gets the capillary
transferred from one body to another. A perpetualwater based pump to work. A crookes radiometer
motion of first kind gives unlimited amount of energyconsists of a partial vacuum glass container with a
from nothing, which is a clear cut contradiction to thesmall propeller worked by temperature gradients.
first law.  Inorder to wind the spring of the atmos clock, it uses
The second law of thermodynamics says that therethe changes in the vapor pressure of ethyl chloride
will always be some wastage of energy in the formwith temperature. Any device that functions using
of heat, hence no machine can give 100% efficiency.energy in small quantity from electromagnetic
Perpetual motion of the second kind refers to aradiation is also said to be perpetual motion machines.
device that pulls out heat from a source and thenBesides the physics based description, perpetual
exchanges this heat completely into other forms ofmotion machine has other denotations too. It can be
energy.literally used to describe machines or even people in
The third law of thermodynamics states that frictionas moving perpetually or continuously without
exists, hence entropy increases. Perpetual motion ofstopping. Also, any concept or equipment that
the third kind is a device that can function or keepviolates physics is colloquially called a perpetual motion
moving forever, which is not plausible due to themachine.