Recent content by haunted1748

Its not a bad idea, but its not perpetual energy. Basically you're talking about making a massive alternator that uses gravity to give you your mechanical motion and converting it into usable energy. It looks like it will last forever, but it won't. The laws of thermodynamics still apply and...

Since your friend is an idiot and so am I, here is a very simple way to explain it. The Earth and the passing asteroid actually move towards each other because they both have gravity and the total movement force is split equally between their two points. Only, the asteroid is much smaller than...