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Article #19393Re: Free power from 'whispering wires' ??
From: David L. Smith
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1988 08:17
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1988 08:17
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In article <1310011@hpcilzb.HP.COM>, eric@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Eric Novikoff) writes:
> You CS types need to take an E+M class!!!! If you're lucky enough to still be
> in school and you're really interested, go for it. A lot of what you
> discussed comes perilously close to Perpetual Motion!
Interestingly enough, power line induction was used to power one (not-so)
perpetual motion machine. The person who writes the Ariadne column in the
back of the New Scientist magazine made a little machine that went around
and around and around with no visible means of power. He then invited
reporters, scientists, etc. to examine the machine, in any manner they
wanted with the stipulation that they couldn't move it. No one tumbled to
the fact that it was actually running off an induced current from the wiring
in the wall (it used a very trivial amount of power).
--
David L. Smith
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Sinners can repent but stupid is forever.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!mailrus!ames!ucsd!ucsdhub!jack!sdeggo!dave From: dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Free power from 'whispering wires' ?? Message-ID: <219@sdeggo.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 88 08:17:16 GMT References: <3170@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> <1310011@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Organization: Lazy Programmer's Society of San Diego Lines: 18