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To: BiglyCommentary
First Law of Thermodynamics: You can't win.

Second Law of Thermodynamics: You can't even break even.

True in all energy conversions but the energy may be in a more useful form.

26 posted on 06/09/2022 4:42:01 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Beware the coming TRUMPster Fire!)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

For the past 30 years or more these over-unity cons show up like clockwork, i.e Hydrolysis using some secret resonant frequency or similar.


42 posted on 06/09/2022 5:27:33 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Aevery_Freeman

Precisely.

See my musing post below wondering what the full conversion efficiency is for various sources of tractive force.


58 posted on 06/09/2022 7:34:24 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

Homer Simpson once told Lisa when she invented a perpetual motion machine for the science fair: “Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermo dynamics.”


74 posted on 06/09/2022 3:04:39 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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