It is different, because it cannot provide itself with power indefinitely. It still requires thorium. If you gave the machine some thorium, turned it on and left it, it would eventually run down, because it would run out of thorium. This is not perpetual motion!
Coal Power plants can power themselves in exactly the same way. So can Nuclear Power plants. The energy that comes out of every power plant is more than is put in (otherwise they would be pretty useless), so every power plant can power itself. The point is, every power plant needs something more than power...it needs a resource to convert to energy.
A perpetual motion machine by definition does not require the constant addition of a resource.
Also, I never decided you were being willingly ignorant; I asked you if you were. At the moment I can't decide if you actually don't know basic physics or are just trolling me.
Here is a much more in-depth article if anyone wants to do any extra reading on the physics behind this: http://www.thegwpf.org/energy-news/3199-...ancer.html
Coal Power plants can power themselves in exactly the same way. So can Nuclear Power plants. The energy that comes out of every power plant is more than is put in (otherwise they would be pretty useless), so every power plant can power itself. The point is, every power plant needs something more than power...it needs a resource to convert to energy.
A perpetual motion machine by definition does not require the constant addition of a resource.
Also, I never decided you were being willingly ignorant; I asked you if you were. At the moment I can't decide if you actually don't know basic physics or are just trolling me.
Here is a much more in-depth article if anyone wants to do any extra reading on the physics behind this: http://www.thegwpf.org/energy-news/3199-...ancer.html
