Reusable Energy and perpetual motion

greenwoodmonkey

I am a massive fan of trying to find new ways to create re-usable energy (see my last topic entitled "Why Can't I" in the science section of the forums to see my discussion (attempt) to find out why we can't make a lamp that will power it's own solar panels... it was a riot!

Anyway, my discussion today is........

If a cat will always land on it's feet when dropped from any height (and yes I know there is a mimimum height that this works from, as does my pet Persian "Sparky" who now moves around dragging his behind on a rather fetching set of skateboard wheels) and toast always lands butter side up... if we could attach a slice of toast butterside up on a cats back and then drop the cat, would be able to create perpetual motion? And therefor could we harness this to power say, a small lamp or torch?

coolclay

Dude, um wow.

Soltair

Lol

This isn't quite true for the toast, I guess. It might be for a toast alone, still with a cat...

But cats also miss their shot sometimes! If you drop a cat from a low spot, chances are it won't be able to turn in time and fall on its back.

And to do that, you'd need an endless pit Wink

mgumn

LOL! dont know if this is where you got it from, but check out :

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Cat-Toast_Device

for all the science involved

Reaper

Yes cats don't always land right side up, and its nearly impossible for them to land on their feet if they land on stairs. (pushed a cat off a railing when i was younger, it didn't land on its feet.) And I must say your topics are quite intresting Very Happy

the1991

either way, perpetual motion doesn't "create" energy. perpetual motion just doesn't dissipate energy from a localized source. in other words, the moment you light up your lamp, you must first take energy from the perpetual motion device. trust me, there's no freebies.

Da Rossa

This subject used to be interesting (the cat with the bread+butter attached), but I think that today it is much like a marijuana-junkie hobby to talk about it. And before you get too deep in this 'philosophy', nothing is perpetual. Specially not the elements associated with energy. It is optimisable, but not 100% reusable in any process.

p.s. this is my dumb opinion. Smile

iexplore

of sorts... but if perpetual motion needed something like that then it wouldn't need thinking at all. It could have been done without much ado. All super things in life are simple. we just need to look...