[moocowduckquack]

My favourite one of these is this stupidness in Brazil, which seemingly has decided that the problem with perpetual motion was just that nobody had built it big enough yet, or something - http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre... - apparently they are currently building a second one in Illinois.

"O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold."

Leonardo da Vinci

[jotm]

Maybe it would work if you made it half the size of the moon...

[lowmagnet]

That's cg.

[moocowduckquack]

maybe - "Now, before you all scream “Photoshopped,” take a gander at a FotoForensics analysis of one of the images, where ELA (error level analysis) seems to indicate consistent levels of compression. EXIF data shows the pictures were shot with a Sony DSC-WX5 and saved in PhotoScape. It may be simpler than that: you can easily recognize the same employees in different shots from different angles, and there are quite a lot of photos. RAR Energia’s most recent endeavor—a second machine in Gilman Illinois—seems to have been erected in the past two months. The Gilman warehouse is located on property belonging to bio-diesel manufacturing firm Incobrasa Industries (named a “Company of the [RAR Energia] group” on the RAR Energia site). Here’s a little internet sleuthing for your consideration: a photo of the completed warehouse and a Google maps link to the location in question (40.763176, -88.012706). Note the distinctly shaped building in the background (another view here, during construction), which can be found due south of the location indicated in the Google maps link. We’re not suggesting that you completely rule out image manipulation, but if it’s Photoshopped, it’s a damned elaborate job." - http://hackaday.com/2013/11/30/gravity-powered-generator-rea...