Fun with perpetuum mobile

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Was browsing Salon, and just came across the following intriguing blog entry. Apparently some Irish company took out an ad in the Economist a year ago claiming they had a device which violated conservation of energy (!). A planned technical demonstration for the 4th of July was cancelled due to "irreparable technical difficulties." The main claim is that apparently when you heat Orbo the Wonder Machine, say with lights for cameras, Orbo does not like that.

From Engadget, a brief description of how this fantastic device actually works:
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CEO Sean McCarthy tells SilconRepublic how it works. Namely, the time variance in magnetic fields allows the Orbo platform to "consistently produce power, going against the law of conservation of energy which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed." He goes on to say "It's too good to be true but it is true. It will have such an impact on everything we do. The only analogy I can give is if you had absolute proof that God wasn't real." Whoa.

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I bet it would have been fun to apply to test this thing's claims, as they state over 500 "qualified scientists" have been doing for a year.