video posted to YouTube on Feb 20, 2022
YouTube channel: Michel van Biezen


"Perpetual motion is the motion of bodies that continues forever in an unperturbed system. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work infinitely without an external energy source. This kind of machine is impossible, as it would violate either the first or second law of thermodynamics or both."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics


"The most difficult part of building a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the batteries."

In the OP device, the ball started it's fall through the hole at the bottom of the bowl. After it's run down the wires, it had to reach a height of higher than the hole in order to get over the lip of the bowl. There's always a catch to these gizmos even if we can't see it here.

i remember watching a show as a kid called Real People and they had a guy who said he had invented an perpetual motion machine. It was similar to some in the videos above where a wheel would rotate pushing weights out on the downward cycle and pulling them in on the upward cycle. He was an old guy and had hobbied with that idea for years arriving at this design.

I've always been fascinated with the idea since. I wanted to try to play with a generator, motor and gears where the generator's power output was more than the motor consumed. As a young boy I was convinced you could do it. I saw the free energy video listed, there are several variations of it on youtube, and its fun to watch other people break down where they trick you with editing or hide a cord, etc.,

I wonder how many inventions have been created because no one ever told the guy it was impossible to accomplish?

Until one can do actual “work” the designs are useless. The best one I’ve seen in person uses magnets and gyroscopic motion. It is running a generator producing a surprising amount of electricity. It’s been “running” for about 5 years now in a lab up in Denver. But even the designers and builders admit it will eventually lose momentum and stop at some point.

That's way cool. I'd love to have one of those.

There's an energy input driving that. It's called gravitation. It's a force that's constantly being exerted on all massive objects on the earth. That device converts that force into motion, with the aid of momentum.

I thought you were going to post a picture of a government money printing device.

a womans mouth

.... never stops running.

I see what you did there and ... I like it.

Isn't the universe a perpetual motion machine?

I'm reading that this is a gag device, i.e., there's a hidden battery in it.

Not really, since all the motion that seems to be going on forever in the universe is being driven by residual energy from the Big Bang.

I thought so too.

Available on Amazon, but they all say that they take a small hidden battery, which indicates it's a gimmick designed to fool people into believing it's a perpetual motion device.

What does the battery do? The slide appears to be fixed, it doesn't actively flick the ball and the ball just drops into the slide.

Don't know, have not seen it.

But a small E magnet in the down chute would.explain how the ball can jump to a higher elevation than that from which it fell. IOW gain energy with every cycle.

Possibly, but I can't think how placing a magnet in that position would accelerate the ball.

Try it with a marble...I say it won't work.

It would only work with a E magnet which could accelerate the ball downward and be turned off instantly as the ball passes.

I might be totally off base, that is just one possible explanation

It has batteries and a magnet in the base with a removable cover.

that was my thought too !

I guess that may be possible, but needs very fast trip switch response time.

You would think that making a generator out of a bigger version of that would work just fine. Environmentally friendly too.

Since gravity is a constant downward pushing force, you'd think there would indeed be a way to convert it into excess energy sufficient to run a generator.

This is what's done with rivers, for example, which exert a constant unidirectional force.

Hawk, the problem is that it takes more energy to lift your mass back to height so you can drop it again, than you can harvest from the system.

Your river harnesses solar power to do the lifting. High School Physics.

I thought about this one for a bit

If you made it real big say 20 ft diameter with heavy solid Steel rolling weights.
It may turn a very small generator
The down side would be that the Sound and Vibration (Gong Ringing Effect) of the crashing of those weights would be deafening and would Piss everyone off for miles.

Just My Thoughts.

Meh, it’s all bullsheet. Some of us had thermodynamics. Da rools when it comes to energy efficiency:

1 - You can’t win
2 - you can’t break even
3 - You cant quit

A gravity powered generator wouldn't really be perpetual motion since the external input would be gravitational force.

Notice the bearing he used? He used it dry. If any stress was on it, it would need grease and grease would slow it down. I doubt those balls would even turn a greased bearing. It would need a very high tech, totally frictionless bearing.
The vanes are like fan blades. They're pushing air which will eventually slow it down.
Count the balls on the inside vs the outside. At any given time, the number of balls moving down on the ouside is almost the same as those moving up so the gravitational pull is equal. But then, the down moving balls on the outside are also having to lift the up moving inside balls as there is nothing to balance them. In the photo, there are 3 down moving balls, 1 of which is almost at the bottom and isn't contributing to the motion. On the left are 2 up moving balls and 1 that is neutral at the bottom. So, the up and down motion is almost neutral. But, there are 5 inside balls being lifted. You'd have to do some measuring and some math, but you'd find that their total weight would be at least that of 1 outside ball.