Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm
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Perpetual motion machines — devices that can do
work indefinitely without any external energy source — have captured
many inventors’ imaginations because they could totally transform our
relationship with energy. There’s just one problem: they don’t work. Why
not? Netta Schramm describes the pitfalls of perpetual motion machines.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Netta Schramm
- Director
- Jeremiah Dickey
- Script Editor
- Eleanor Nelsen
- Sound Designer
- Stephen LaRosa
- Associate Producer
- Jessica Ruby
