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A new addition to CES this year Physics defying tech (techcrunch.com)
3 points by matti3 4181 days ago
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According to the second law of thermodynamics the entropy of an isolated system never decreases; such a system will spontaneously evolve toward thermodynamic equilibrium, the configuration with maximum entropy. Systems that are not isolated may decrease in entropy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

An isolated system obeys the conservation law that its total energy–mass stays constant.

Because of the requirement of enclosure, and the near ubiquity of gravity, strictly and ideally isolated systems do not actually occur in experiments or in nature. They are thus hypothetical concepts only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated_system

As member of my local makerspace there is never a shortage of people coming through with their snake oil perpetual motion machines.... And they all sound like this guy.