Is providing energy to the world though perpetual motion even possible?
There are several places where you’re going to have friction and/or resistance of one form or another. That’s a nontrivial factor that would put an upper limit on the speed, if the chasing would work in the first place. The chasing itself is also based on a faulty assumption. I know the hope is that if you align them just right, you’ll have the front of each magnet attracted to the back of the other magnet and they will move forward in an attempt to catch the magnet in front of them. The attraction between north and south poles is mutual, though. Thus, just as magnet A is attracted to magnet B in front of it, B is pulled backwards to A with the same force. That would tend to draw B backwards until they touch. That works against the hope that B will be attracted forward towards A. It’s hard to show without diagrams, but the essence is that either the magnets are in equilibrium, such as when you have them at the 6 and 12 o’clock positions in a circular track OR both magnets are on the sa
