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From: merrill@raja.DEC (Rick)
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Subject: KS Perpetual Motion Machine
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		The Kappa Sigma Perpetual Motion Machine

Ground rules

Now that a team of six critical volunteers has been identified 
(you know who you are) here is the description.  But first two ground rules:
Please keep all replies to net.phisics [let's keep this out of net.religion:-)]
and please, no arcane formula - use English, ok?

Description

Consider an unfinished tower at the edge of a river.  Hydrolysis is performed
continuously on some water from the river and the subsequent oxygen and 
hydrogen gasses are stored in balloons, which being lighter than air rise
to the top of the tower where the balloons are burst and a spark ignites the
gasses which combine into water.  The water is permitted to fall through
a vacuum tube into a turbine which generates twenty percent more electricity
than is needed to operate the aforementioned operations.

Theory

Gravity works for us in two directions.  First by creating a pressure gradient
in the atmosphere that gives hydrogen and oxygen negative potential energy and
secondly by giving water positive potential energy.  

Discussion

The fraternity economist stalks out declaring the payback period is too long.
The chemist declares that products of hydrolysis do not balance and that the
combustion is incomplete.  The skydiver begins mumbling about "terminal
velocity ... vacuum ?"  The EE asserts that no turbine can possibly be made
to the required efficiency.  The Natural Sciences major begins to rant about
upsetting the ecology of the river, and the MBA wants to know who's vice
president of the whole operation!

Rebuttal

For every energy loss, for any inefficiency, for each diminished return
there is but one response:
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					BUILD THE TOWER HIGHER !