How would you guys create perpetual energy and investiture?

[shadowwisp]

Using the various magic systems in Brandon Sanderson's books how would you guys create infinite or at least very large amounts of energy and/or investiture?  

 

For the sake of fun, let's say that you can't use Compounding since that would be too easy. 

[Eki]

Have two Iron Ferrings on separate sides of the pivot of a lever (a see-saw basically), connect it to a generator, and have them alternately fill and empty their metalminds, making the lever flip and the generator spin. This shouldn't actually take any extra power or resources other than keeping the Ferrings alive. They might get a bit dizzy though, but it should be possible to make a system on the same principle using elevators or something.

[Oversleep]

Awakening? Breath degrades very slowly.

Eki already pointed out double Skimmer perpetuum mobile. IIRC Coinshot/Lurcher turbines are canon. Make Pewterarms manually spin generator? Technically you only need to supply pewter.

Roshar seems hard, since it uses Investiture quickly, but if you Soulcast air into metal at high altitude, you're creating a lot of kinetic energy. Basic Lashing could also be useful - Lashing something up and it falling down can also create a lot of energy.
 

Or wrap Elantrians in solar panels XD

Edited April 10, 2016 by Oversleep

[shadowwisp]

Use an awakened cloth to rotate a crank on a generator ⇒ clean electricity. 
Have that electricity to power a heater and use a Brass ferring to store that heat ⇒ pseudo-end positive feruchemy. Still a very specific form of investiture though. Can't think of a way to convert that to any other form investiture. 

[Master_Moridin he/him]

Mechanical Allomantic steel and iron pushing and pulling on the ends of a crank/turbine.  Infinite power.

[timasp he/him]

soulcasting waste into fire to boil water, soulcasting the smoke into more fire

[asterion137 he/him]

Brass compounding and using the heat to power some kind of generator

[Voidus]

Lift

[18th Shard he/him]

Nightblood. Wait...

 

Seriously though, Forge a battery to have not been used. Use it to pass energy to another battery, then break the seal and repeat.

[Yata he/him]

Using Hoid as bait.

 

You will only need to put Hoid in a box. and on the box there are a text.

"if you want to shoot him, before you have to donate at least 2 Kw of power, if you can't generate power.... Use that cyclette for one hour to provide your payment. Only a single shot every 2 KW".

 

And of course the Cyclette are connected to dynamo.