Trying to find something about eternity engine

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The discussion focuses on the concept of the eternity engine and its relation to perpetual motion machines, emphasizing the theoretical impossibility of creating such devices. It highlights that all systems experience energy loss, primarily through heat, making true perpetual motion unattainable. Close approximations exist, such as celestial movements and superconducting currents, but these do not violate thermodynamic laws. The conversation references scientific literature that explains how perpetual motion machines contradict both laws of thermodynamics. Overall, the consensus is that while intriguing, the creation of an eternity engine remains fundamentally impossible.
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Trying to find something about eternity engine

to find something about eternity engine on the net or more precisely about unsuccessful attempts to build one and exactly about the theory that claims it is not possible. If anyone knows some source for a material, please let me know.
 
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In most systems, some of the energy is "lost" converted to some other form, such as heat. But there are close approximations of perpetual motion, such as the movment (usually orbital) of objects in space (almost no drag), or a flow or current that was induced into a circular super-conducting wire (no resistance).
 
Office_Shredder said:

It is so, but forgot that scientists still use Latin language for easier communication. Perpetual motion machine, as I found in the reference, actually violates both of the thermodynamical laws. First, because the only result of this hypothetical mechanism would be work done by a system greater than the energy transferred into the system (first type of perpetuum mobile). Second, because there are no mechanism that could completely convert all entire energy of a system into work (second type of perpetuum mobile).
 
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