Why do people keep on trying to build perpetual motion machines?
There are two reasons. One group of perpetual motion machine inventors is ignorant of basic physics. They think they have discovered something which everyone else has missed. Often they don’t have the skill to make correct measurements of the input and output powers of their machines and so they become convinced they are right and the scientific world is wrong. Some can’t quite get their machines to work but believe they could if they could only get more money to spend on them. This group usually gets very bitter and twisted because no one will take them seriously. Often they blame their failure on a conspiracy by the oil companies or the government. The other group knows quite well that their scheme won’t work. However they happily solicit investment from the public to develop and introduce their machines. This brings in money, most of which is used to publicize the scheme and bring in more suckers. Their biggest problem is how to keep the scam going and stay out of jail. They have to
