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Why perpetual motion machines don’t work

Posted by / June 6, 2017

The first recorded pla for a perpetual motion machine dates all the way back to around 1159 A.D., and generation after generation tries and fails to bring this elusive idea to fruition.

The problem? Each on violates one or more of the laws of thermodynamics.

Netta Schramm explains in this animation from TED-Ed.

Full story at TED-Ed.

Stumped by scientific laws.

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