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[Forumsdwarf]

Technically if your formerly thermodynamically impossible perpetual motion generator's wheel's tail run opens to an evaporation chamber it doesn't necessarily break the laws of physics anymore.
True the odds of finding an underground room IRL that stays warm enough to continuously evaporate the tail run of a waterwheel are slim, and pumping water from the tail run to the penstock should make the system less efficient, not more, but such a system is theoretically possible.  Physics purists rejoice!
I guess such a power plant IRL would have to be called "geothermal".  The evaporation room would almost certainly have to have some kind of seismic / volcanic reason to stay warm enough to continuously evaporate so much water.

[ilnar]

well yes, but if you want to be that much of a purist, just put the damn wheel in the brook:P
im just waiting for the day when i can use magma to boil water and run a wheel from steam power

[Draco18s]

...And I point out that you're using energy from an outside system (volcano!) to power a "nothing machine."

[Xgamer4]

...And Draco beat me to it.

[DJ]

I thought the whole point was to use outside energy.

But anyway, I always place my wheels in brooks. Currently, I'm building an axle ~250 tiles long.

[Skanky]

I like disobeying the laws of physics.

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by DJ:
<STRONG>I thought the whole point was to use outside energy.</STRONG>

No, perpetual motion machines are supposed to be self-contained.

"...perpetual motion usually refers to a device or system that delivers more energy than was put into it. Such a device or system would be in violation of the law of Conservation of Energy."

[numerobis]

quote:Originally posted by Draco18s:
<STRONG>No, perpetual motion machines are supposed to be self-contained.</STRONG>

And this topic is about creating a not perpetual motion.  I like the idea; perpetual motion bothers me, too.

[Inquisitor Saturn]

quote:Originally posted by ilnar:
<STRONG>im just waiting for the day when i can use magma to boil water and run a wheel from steam power</STRONG>

There's an idea. A boiler furnace, which can be a source of power like the waterwheel and windmill, but can be powered by either lava or by wood burning.

[nerdpride]

quote:Originally posted by Skanky:
<STRONG>I like disobeying the laws of physics.</STRONG>

Rules were meant to be broken!  XD

[YolkFolk]

You should be able to put goblins inside a hamster-wheel analog. Goblins are an infinitely renewable resource.