Why can’t perpetual motion provide an infinite energy source?
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It’s not so much that there is a specific reason why we can’t get infinite energy out of a perpetual motion machine. It’s because simply one of the apparent rules of the universe says we can’t.
Through thorough testing, one consistent rule of the universe is that energy can not be created or destroyed. Any time it seemed as if we could get infinite energy, it turned out that energy was coming from somewhere we didn’t realize. Every time we thought energy was being lost from a system, there was an exit point for the energy we didn’t account for. This is why all perpetual motion machines fail to produce energy. Reality simply isn’t set up that way.
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