I suddenly had this thought in the bath. (...Where else?)
That there have always been "way-out"/ "crazy" theories and claims concerning the existence of "free energy" - unlimited energy for no thermodynamic "cost"; and also claims to have discovered or invented a "perpetual motion" machine.
And yet, my best understanding of metaphysics is that the ultimate reality of Creation consists of Beings in relationships.
So, free energy/ perpetual motion simply basic properties of all Beings - including you and me.
I mean that all beings are "powered" by unlimited and cost-free energy - and are themselves perpetual motion "machines".
When Beings are known as the primary "units" of ultimate reality (Beings are alive, conscious, self-sustaining, eternal); then of course they (we) have properties that include an infinitely-renewable "free" energy... How else could we and other Beings be eternal?
And, because all Beings are "dynamic" (not static), and all Beings exist "in" Time, in the sense that Time is property of Beings - then some kind of "perpetual motion" must be a feature.
Another way of thinking about this is the divine creation does not (cannot) depend on any external source of energy else it could not be eternal; because any externally-supplied energy implies entropy, which is the opposite of creation).
And creation is dynamic, entails change - and eternal change is perpetual motion.
Because (by my pluralist metaphysics) all real creation is divine in nature (whether that creation is of-God or of some other Being) - that is, all creating partakes is an action of free agency, hence represents the operation of divine qualities - then, it must be a property of Beings to behave like free energy "devices" and perpetual motion "machines".
So these don't need to be invented or discovered: we all already know dozens of such entities - including our-selves.
NOTE ADDED: Why am I saying this?
Well, the ridiculing of ideas of free energy and perpetual motion has become mainstream exactly because it is a soft-sell (i.e. an indirect and implicit promotion) of the primacy of entropy in reality; and thus the denial of creation.
The fact we have come to regard these ideas as not just untrue but actually insane, is evidence that we have made false metaphysical choices at a very deep level.
And it is these fundamental errors in understanding the basic nature of reality that trap so-many of us in nihilistic and despairing materialism.
