The book analyzes some of the projects of eternal engines of the 2nd kind that appear in the literature According to the author, in the second half of the 19th century, Big Science mistakenly chose a dead end branch of development in the field of thermodynamics and statistical physics. This situation (due to the fractality of science, due to which it develops through a cascade of branch points) is quite normal, but today it is time for Big Science to switch from this dead end branch to the main one, otherwise evolution will punish us with "thermal death"