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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-06-2007, 07:28 PM

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Fun with perpetuum mobile

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Re: Fun with perpetuum mobile

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My point is that a) its not free energy and b) the power from it (work rate) would be so ineffectual that an array of billions of these devices couldn't power a single home

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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-06-2007, 06:38 PM

Replies: 10

Fun with perpetuum mobile

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Re: Fun with perpetuum mobile

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The strength of the earths magnetic field is so imperceptibly weak

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Maybe to the string theorists, but it's not an insignificant field at all, really. I'm not saying you...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-06-2007, 04:48 PM

Replies: 10

Fun with perpetuum mobile

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I can't help thinking it'd be easier to find circumstances where you could take advantage of the fixed field than to harness the random fluctuations... but then, I am not a physicist.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-06-2007, 03:31 PM

Replies: 10

Fun with perpetuum mobile

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Consistently extracting work from the earth's magnetic field could be done on a small scale for a few billion years without violating conservation of energy, though - there is SOME...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-06-2007, 01:03 PM

Replies: 10

Fun with perpetuum mobile

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Fun with perpetuum mobile

Was browsing Salon, and just came across the following intriguing blog (http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/07/06/steorn/index.html) entry. Apparently some Irish company took out an ad in the...

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