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Re: Perpetuum Mobile invented !

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From: Kevin D. Quitt
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:00
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On Wed, 05 Jun 96 01:27:22 GMT, bsulliva@sky.net (Bob Sullivan) wrote:

>In article <31b4987a.340467316@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>,
>   kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) wrote:
>->On Sun, 02 Jun 96 12:10:45 GMT, bsulliva@sky.net (Bob Sullivan) wrote:
>->>Where are the examples of "Perpetual Motion" or "close to Perpetual Motion" 
>->>where interest rather than ridicule is due?
>->
>->The Atmos clock.  Not electric, and it's been in my family for ~30 years and
>->has never been wound (and, in fact, has no way to wind it).  Oh, yeah - it's
>->been running all that time.
>->
>
>A clock with an *external* energy source provided by changes in barometric 
>pressure?

No, actually is powered by changes in temperature.  But the question was
"close" to perpetual montion, and this clock is as close as you're going to
get.  Which makes it interesting.

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From: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt)
Subject: Re: Perpetuum Mobile invented !
Date: 1996/06/06
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