Can an inverter through a battery charger charge its own batteries?
Hmmm, that looks suspicious:

But this one looks totally legit:

All the &quot;free energy&quot; gimmicks, work the same way:

Start with an impossible goal: extract unlimited energy from something finite.

Add enough complexity to obfuscate the basic facts and make it believable.


This latter step is usually done with lots of magnets, lots of alternators, or marxist theory for example.
Most people understand by intuition that one can't lift off the ground by pulling on their bootstraps, but once you add enough bells and whistles, copper coils and big iron to the exact same thing, the magic happens and it becomes believable.