Perpetually Green

I just came across a website advertising a Do It Yourself Green Energy Generator.  That’s right you can build your own Energy Generator and live completely off the grid.  Here’s a blurb from the website about how it works:

Howard Johnson / Magniwork Generator uses a scientific process called “Perpetual Motion”. Perpetual motion is when a device continues to move without stopping. A perpetual motor generator will create MORE energy than it will use.

Oh my goodness!  Perpetual motion!  I better get started on this right away.  Let’s see what do I need here?

• Magnets, check!
• Coils, check.
• Iron rod, check. 
• Brains, don’t need them.
• Money, lot’s of it.

Wait! What?  Back up a step.  Why don’t I need my brains to make my Green perpetual energy machine? 

Mostly because Perpetual Motion is a pipe dream that violates both the first and second laws of thermodynamics: the energy in the universe is constant, and is only converted to other kinds of energy, so a machine needs energy input in order to output, and entropy is the state that everything is heading toward, the machine will always convert energy into less usable kinds of energy-heat through friction.

I didn’t buy the plans from the website because they’re publically available.  They were originally developed by Howard Johnson in 1979, and he even holds a patent on his perpetual motion machine, but no one has ever been able to use them to make a working model. 

Let’s face it, there’s only one perpetual self-sustaining power in the universe and His name is Yahweh.  He has existed forever and will exist forever.  He is the creator of all that is and will ever be.  He alone deserves our praise.   So once again I say, don’t go green, go light!