Perpetual motion through magnetized water?

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if you mixed water with a feromagnetic metal and then ran it through permanent magnets (giving it a charge or allign it correctly) , then heated it up into stem and ran it through a coil of copper wire (in some way as to cause electrons to flow). waited for it to condensate (perhaps using the enviornment) and re-ran the cycle.

could you produce enough electricity to keep everything perpetually moving? remember, there are no moving parts. just electricity moving.
 
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The energy to turn the water to steam and get it back to the top of whatever it is running down (presumably a pipe?) would outweigh any energy you get out of the system.

If you could utilise all the energy given out by a system all you would be able to do is reset it to it's original set up, if you want to extract energy to do work the system looses energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
 
DaleSpam said:
Perpetual motion is forbidden both by the laws of nature and the rules of this forum.

I don't know if you went for comedy with that, but it made me chuckle! :smile:

@avolaster: Do you realize electricity also encounters resistance?