You can patent anything in the USA, even a perpetual motion machine. (but it has to come with a working model)
It has to come with a proven tested model, so it's a little more stringent than you suggest.
The patent approval process is not easy. It takes quite a bit. That doesn't mean that everything patented works, or that "a patent makes it true," but it does suggest that it is at the very least determined plausible by someone who has, at a minimum, a B.S. in the field of applicability of the device in question (electrical engineering for an electronic device, chemical engineering for a chemical device, etc.). In addition, if the device is "extraordinary," the patent process requires proof of work. If it is really extraordinary, it requires independent testing.
It's far from a perfect process, and I think there is a great deal of fuckery in there. I have seen evidence of both promoting things that don't work to purposefully cause "conspiracy theories" (most "crazy" conspiracy theories are created by the C_A as a form of controlled opposition), and purposefully not granting patents on things that do work for the purposes of highjacking real advancements.
You may be able to patent almost anything, but you can't just "get a patent." In addition, the more unlikely the product, the more likely the product was created by the government (or an affiliate), either as part of a black ops project, or for the reasons stated above.
As to perpetual motion...
A device that is filled with uranium surrounded by rocks to absorb (most of) the energy that creates heat is a "perpetual heating" device until you understand nuclear physics. A device that puts out more energy than it takes in is absolutely possible, including a device that requires zero energy input, and produces effectively unlimited energy. Such a device could work from now until the end of time if it say, took energy from the universe itself. Our current physics models state that what we call matter is just energy, but they also suggest there's a whole lot of energy in between all that "matter" stuff as well. On top of this "quantum vacuum energy", the universe seems to be on a course of accelerating expansion. Where is the energy coming from for that? No one knows. Presumably it's coming from some where, which means our concepts of "what the universe is" are likely missing something very important.
Regardless of the possibility or impossibility of a "perpetual motion device" (which is, I suggest, just a poor choice of words), if someone were to come up with a device that seems to draw energy from an unknown source, it would almost certainly not get a patent because the patent office, or rather the final determinant of the patent office, the National Bureau of Standards (now the NIST) was created by John D. Rockefeller (or rather, his agents) in 1901. This system was designed specifically as a gatekeeper for all technology. This ensured that no advancements would ever happen without the approval of the one and only corporation that exists in the world, built by John D. Rockefeller.
The owner of all energy (oil, coal, gas, nuclear, solar, etc.) would hardly want a device that produced "unlimited energy," thus any device that supplied such would be nipped in the bud post haste, if it existed.
It has to come with a proven tested model, so it's a little more stringent than you suggest.
The patent approval process is not easy. It takes quite a bit. That doesn't mean that everything patented works, or that "a patent makes it true," but it does suggest that it is at the very least determined plausible by someone who has, at a minimum, a B.S. in the field of applicability of the device in question (electrical engineering for an electronic device, chemical engineering for a chemical device, etc.). In addition, if the device is "extraordinary," the patent process requires proof of work. If it is really extraordinary, it requires independent testing.
It's far from a perfect process, and I think there is a great deal of fuckery in there. I have seen evidence of both promoting things that don't work to purposefully cause "conspiracy theories" (most "crazy" conspiracy theories are created by the C_A as a form of controlled opposition), and purposefully not granting patents on things that do work for the purposes of highjacking real advancements.
You may be able to patent almost anything, but you can't just "get a patent." In addition, the more unlikely the product, the more likely the product was created by the government (or an affiliate), either as part of a black ops project, or for the reasons stated above.
As to perpetual motion...
A device that is filled with uranium surrounded by rocks to absorb (most of) the energy that creates heat is a "perpetual heating" device until you understand nuclear physics. A device that puts out more energy than it takes in is absolutely possible, including a device that requires zero energy input, and produces effectively unlimited energy. Such a device could work from now until the end of time if it say, took energy from the universe itself. Our current physics models state that what we call matter is just energy, but they also suggest there's a whole lot of energy in between all that "matter" stuff as well. On top of this "quantum vacuum energy", the universe seems to be on a course of accelerating expansion. Where is the energy coming from for that? No one knows. Presumably it's coming from some where, which means our concepts of "what the universe is" are likely missing something very important.
Regardless of the possibility or impossibility of a "perpetual motion device" (which is, I suggest, just a poor choice of words), if someone were to come up with a device that seems to draw energy from an unknown source, it would almost certainly not get a patent because the patent office, or rather the final determinant of the patent office, the National Bureau of Standards (now the NIST) was created by John D. Rockefeller (or rather, his agents) in 1901. This system was designed specifically as a gatekeeper for all technology. This ensured that no advancements would ever happen without the approval of the one and only corporation that exists in the world, built by John D. Rockefeller.
The owner of all energy (oil, coal, gas, nuclear, solar, etc.) would hardly want a device that produced "unlimited energy," thus any device that supplied such would be nipped in the bud post haste, if it existed.
Karpens Pile.