Alternative Energy

[Lissa]

I am always skeptical of perpetual energy devices, but realistically in my understanding of quantum reality, it is certainly possible to be converting mass and/or tapping into existing energetic waves. It just has to come from some transformation (conservation of energy).

Here's a fun little thought experiment that just came up for me; the rotations of planets making their infinite turns in space, or of course their circular prograde (or retrograde) rotations around the sun, despite debris in space which should in theory slow down a planets rotation - they do not - seem to prove perpetual motion and hence perpetual energy. How can it be that the orbital moon produces both heat and tidal movement energy on our planet while keeping it's rotation; this alone seems to disprove the law of conservation of energy in regards to perpetual motion. Now before we get into orbital decay, I think it's relevant to point out the obvious, exploiting this "feature" of nature for energy purposes. A large object in space generates its own gravity, this is known, and can elicit it's own satellites which in turn can have their own gravity field (such as our moon) which can have an effect on their host planet. This effect, such as tidal energy, can be harvested freely, hence your supposed impossible perpetual motion device. Now how to replicate that on Earth?

Um...no...it's well known that planets do slow or increase spin based on the universal gravity equation. The Earth/moon system has caused both the Earth and moon to slow their rotations over time through tidal forces. Eventually, the moon will leave the Earth and then the tidal drag of the Sun will eventually slow the Earth's rotation to a tidal lock situation. If you take a look at both Mercury and Venus, both rotate very slowing (Mercury has a three to two ratio of rotation to orbit around the sun and Venus has a retrograde rotation, ie, it rotates in the opposite direction that all other planet rotate and on top of it, rotates at about the same number of days that it takes to orbit the Sun).