<![CDATA[Jalopnik: perpetual motion]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: perpetual motion]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/perpetual motion http://jalopnik.com/tag/perpetual motion <![CDATA[ 15 Year-Old Invents Air-Powered Engine, Perpetual Motion ]]> Maruf Karimov, a 15-year-old from Uzbekistan claims to have invented a technique that allows an internal combustion engine to run on compressed air. Because the engine can recharge its air tanks once it's started, it can run indefinitely.

So far, Karimov has been able to start the car and even drive it a few hundred meters, admittedly at a very low speed. His work has been sent to researchers in Germany, where Karimov may conduct future research into improving his design.

Karimov's work differs from other compressed air cars in that the air powers a traditional internal combustion engine. [Via Pravda Ru]

Photo credit: Vanessa Pike-Russell

]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:45:00 EST Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=345163&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Water Fuel Cells Move Closer To Reality ]]> A group developing Water Fuel Cell technology claims to be close to completing a fully functioning prototype. Of all the conspiracy theories on the Internet, the one surrounding Stanley Meyer's inventions and death is one of the most well known. Having purportedly developed a Water Fuel Cell - a perpetual motion device capable of extracting power from water by separating the hydrogen and oxygen, then combusting the two, thus reforming water - his work was largely ignored right up to his supposed murder in 1997. Last month, the two patents for this technology moved into the public domain and the Water Fuel Cell Open Source Project was set up to investigate and develop them. A video of Meyer's Water Fuel Cell car follows the jump.

Photo credit: Victor Geere

According the the vast majority of scientists and the laws of physics, perpetual motion and the WFC are not possible. Should those involved be able to avoid assassination attempts and the Project prove successful, those laws would be rewritten and the world's energy landscape be forever changed.

[The Water Fuel Cell Open Source Project]
Stanley Meyers and the Water Fuel Cell [Wikipedia]

]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:15:00 EDT Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=284012&view=rss&microfeed=true