Incorrect, He is input more energy than he is receiving making it not a perpetual motion machine. It is the battery input + Electromagnetic motion.
Here is an example:
Imagine a battery powered device that uses energy to poke a ball at the edge of a cliff. The ball falls, and reaches terminal velocity before hitting a wheel, spinning it.
The wheel then spins enough to not only power the battery pack but has a surplus. There are many reasons why this is not perpetual motion: The matter is a finite resource that would take energy to place onto a cliff. The gravity is added to the input and the momentum generated by the ball is converted into electrical energy.
This is Similar to what's happening above except that the earth and sun are supplying a lot of the work, making it appear to be less work than it really is.
Incorrect, He is input more energy than he is receiving making it not a perpetual motion machine. It is the battery input + Electromagnetic motion.
Here is an example: Imagine a battery powered device that uses energy to poke a ball at the edge of a cliff. The ball falls, and reaches terminal velocity before hitting a wheel, spinning it. The wheel then spins enough to not only power the battery pack but has a surplus. There are many reasons why this is not perpetual motion: The matter is a finite resource that would take energy to place onto a cliff. The gravity is added to the input and the momentum generated by the ball is converted into electrical energy.
This is Similar to what's happening above except that the earth and sun are supplying a lot of the work, making it appear to be less work than it really is.