DQ: Why aren't many new useful technologies being implemented into society?

[Invincible 2,090]

Cost efficiency and reliability. If your idea is good but you lack the resources to establish it (maintenance & implementation), you won't be using it simply because it's simpler to stick to the previous known best.

 

Likewise, as originally stated, a system where your infrastructure can't handle a new inevntion is inflexible to change, which is basically a flaw in it's design. An analogy - roads designed for horse-powered transportation are less damnding and are generally narrower than those designed for cars. The result is that it makes transportation crippled in older towns.

 

It's also possible that the invention conflicts with, or is waiting a certain condition to be met, such as the ability to produce it or make it available to the masses.

[Malinter 3,064]

Perpetual Motion machines cannot exist because energy is always lost as heat and friction so unless you can make the whole thing out of a heat-proof and friction-proof materials, such a thing cannot exist.

 

No machine is 100% efficient. Not even an electric heater as even that loses some energy as light from heating the coils

Edited October 7, 2015 by Malinter

[Tranquil Claw 80]

Perpetual Motion machines cannot exist because energy is always lost as heat and friction so unless you can make the whole thing out of a heat-proof and friction-proof materials, such a thing cannot exist.

 

No machine is 100% efficient. Not even an electric heater as even that loses some energy as light from heating the coils

Magnetic fields retain their energy as long as the object emitting them retains it's shape. These fields are indeed heat and friction proof, however the materials tied to them are not. So it is possible to have continuous motion using magnetism as long as there is an external force acting on it. In the case of both engines I showed there is such a force. The first is mechanical/electric and the second just works for some baffling reason. The fridge is obviously leaking energy, it just harnesses the lost energy and uses it. Of course a tiny amount cannot be recaptured, that is the way things are.

[Twilight Dirac 720]

 

 

I didn't see any power cord. By the way that device has multiple variations, all of which work. 

 

Really?

 

 

 

Without careful examination, there are any number of ways this device could be drawing power.  The power cord on the left.  Batteries:  while what the youtuber claims the device does would be difficult with batteries, what is actually shown could readily be achieved.  It also could just be a normal fuel consuming electric generator.

 

 

 

Engineers who have the qualification already looked at this design and deemed it legitimate. You can also put into question the relative reliability of any authority's opinion. That too, can be scrutinized, changed for shady reasons, etc..

 

 

Many a charlatan has claimed that engineers or other experts have deemed their perpetual motion engines legitimate, yet none ever seem to enter mass production.  

 

 

 

Magnetic fields retain their energy as long as the object emitting them retains it's shape. These fields are indeed heat and friction proof, however the materials tied to them are not. So it is possible to have continuous motion using magnetism as long as there is an external force acting on it. In the case of both engines I showed there is such a force. The first is mechanical/electric and the second just works for some baffling reason. The fridge is obviously leaking energy, it just harnesses the lost energy and uses it. Of course a tiny amount cannot be recaptured, that is the way things are.

 

Magnetic fields do not retain there energy if they are used to do work.  The magnetic field present within an inductor (really spellcheck, your flagging inductor) in an electric circuit will diminish and eventually vanish if the inductor is providing power to another circuit element.   The magnetic field can be replenished by forcing an electric current through it, but it requires just as much electric power to build the field back up within the inductor as the inductor yields when discharged, so the only thing the magnetic field can do is temporarily store a finite amount of energy (or transport it in the case of electromagnetic waves), it cannot be used to produce energy from nothing.

[SugarfootWillie 383]

Aye on the subject of new tech, what do you think can be done with this?

 

http://www.vocativ.com/news/238355/watch-sound-make-a-liquid-droplet-levitate/

[EpicEnergy 22,074]

I don't understand, there are many useful technologies being implemented into society all the time.

[Stardust 640]

Because resistance or people waiting for someone else to try it (proven technology for cost)

or taking time to test things. But don't assume technology will solve all the problems of this world xP maybe it will even create new ones.

 

 

On 2015-10-07 at 1:01 PM, Tranquil Claw said:

No machine is 100% efficient. Not even an electric heater as even that loses some energy as light from heating the coils

Eventually things go to heat tho

[Evil Pink One 12,972]

Its because we prefer to buy dumb once .... Hence they only make dumb once because sales for smart once are pretty low...

[Fluttershutter 2,118]

This is something I think about. I can't think of any amazing new advances in technology these days. We're in kind of a dark age of technology. Not to mention media.

I think it's because all the technology these days goes into mindless chatter because that's where the money is.