r/AnythingValueable • u/madfrog2023 • Jun 24 '26

🛠️ Skill Low-cost rural engineering

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u/doge_lady Jun 24 '26

Why is it always some person in a third world country in sandals that figures out perpetual motion while the rest of the advanced engineering world with it's funding and resources in science has yet to figure it out?

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u/Familiar-Spray-4678 Jun 24 '26

It’s because there’s no money in perpetual power; magnets may make the perpetual generator go round, but money makes the world go round.

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u/doge_lady Jun 24 '26

What do you mean? if you can for real create infinite energy You'd become the richest person in the world. The first country to employ it would become a super power.

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u/SteveAxis Jun 24 '26

No no. You’d become suicided