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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine (Honest!) (found in net.physics)
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 12:34:56 EST
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Found in net.physics:
> There is already at least one patent issued for a motor whose only
> power source is a permanent magnet.  It was written up a couple 3
> years ago in, I believe, Popular Science.
> 
> Think about it.  There really is a lot of energy in a permanent magnet.
> One little magnet you pull off the bottom of a lady bug that's holding
> a shopping list to your refrigerator door will pick up a hell of a lot
> of nails (one at a time) before it wears out.  I have never actually
> witnessed one of these magnets show any signs of wearing out, though
> I suppose they could.
> 
> Here's the touchy part.  Isn't that energy already in the material
> before it's made into a magnet?  It's all in the atoms/molecules.
> All you do to make a magnet out of it is to align the atoms/molecules
> so they all face the same way.
> 
> Even water is electromagnetically polar.  The molecules just move
> around too easily for a whole ice cube to stay polarized.
> 
> Now, how much enery does it take to align the atoms/molecules?
> Does it take more than you can get out of a magnet before it wears out?
> I don't know.  Someone must.  Someone tell us.
> 
> Does this make sense at all?  Let's remember how many brilliant
> inventors of the past got laughed out of town before they got rich,
> and give this some serious thought.
> 
> 
> Rick Wilson
> Beaverton, Oregon
> tektronix!tekfdi!rick
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Jeff Sonntag
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