Well, the basic idea of a perpetual motion machine, breaks the commonly accepted law of Conservation of Energy. So far, all examples have been
disproven as such...and are not actual perpetual motion machines....though they may be listed by their makers as such....
i know that there are a lot of people that have claimed to have rebuilt the machine
i say rebuilt because i was away for the weekend, and i met up with a guy that i have met only a few times before. when i mentioned the PMM to him he
said that someone had actually built one many centuries ago, in central europe, possibly in what is now germany. but that is all he knew