(February 11, 2012 at 8:19 am)Tiberius Wrote: 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.
Guess it was foolish of me to think that otherwise rational people would understand there are three types of perpetual motion/free energy machines and to understand that my use of the words SUCH AS were not making this a comparison to Newman's machine but to pseudoscientific claims of the same sort.
