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From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.physics,net.sci
Subject: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine (Honest!)
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 12:05:41 EST
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From: phaedrus@eneevax.UUCP (The Sophist) <261@eneevax.UUCP>

> This morning (Wed.  3/13/85) I heard on National Public Radio's
> "Morning Edition" about some inventor in Louisiana who applied for a
> patent for a machine that puts out more energy than it takes in (don't
> start laughing yet).  He claims that it is *not* a perpetual motion
> machine; he says that it gets its `energy' from the `magnetic field'
> [...]

I didn't hear the NPR article, but the invention sounds a lot like
Bruce DePalma's "N-Machine," a device based on the theories of Tesla
and particularly Faraday.

I heard DePalma on a late night talk radio show.  He sounded like he knew
what he was talking about, and he's interested in sharing the idea with others.
He says he'll send plans of his machine to anyone who asks, but I wrote to him
about two weeks ago and haven't heard anything yet.

Bruce DePalma is very much against the institutionalized scientific orthodoxy
as is generally found in universities, as they are generally uninterested
in any evidence that their deeply held beliefs are incorrect.  He has 
apparently encountered a few physicists who have told him that his machine
can't work (in spite of the fact that it does) because the laws of physics
don't allow it.  In other words, "My theory disproves your facts."

For more information, contact:
	Bruce DePalma
	P.O.B 4056
	Santa Barbara, CA 93140
-- 
Bob Kaplan

"Where is it written that we must destroy ourselves?"