(February 11, 2012 at 12:59 am)Phil Wrote:(February 11, 2012 at 12:52 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: This isn't a perpetual motion scenario - fuel is added to the system.
Which powers itself. I think some people here need to read about pseudoscience scams such as Joseph Newman's machine.
It doesn't power itself though. This isn't a machine that just takes 20MW of electricity and turns it into 600MW of electricity. It uses thorium to produce that energy; thorium which will eventually be used up and will need replacing.
A perpetual motion machine is one that can (theoretically) run forever, ignoring wear and tear, without any input to the system. Since this one requires that once in a while we add thorium to the system, it is by definition not a perpetual motion machine.
