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From: gv@hou2e.UUCP (A.VANNUCCI)
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Subject: Re: Joseph Newman's Energy Machine
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 12:56:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 12:56:55 1985
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>      Today, I had the oppurnity to attend the first public showing of the
> Energy Machine of Joseph Newman.  For those of you not familiar with Mr.
> Newman and his "energy machine":  It seems that a man from a place called
> Lucedale, Mississippi has invented a motor that has a production efficiency
> of over 800% (yes, that is correct, eight hundred percent).......
> 
> ......  The machine which I saw operate today used several lantern batteries
> for a power source... connected to the machine's ouput leads were a neon
> sign and about 12 florescent tubes (each 5 feet long).  When Newman threw
> the switch, the lights and sign started to blink on and off... the only
> movement seen in the machine itself was a spark every tenth of a second or
> so.  Obvisouly, 12 florscent tubes cannor be powered by a few lantern 
> batteries, and there was NO trickery to be seen.......
> 
>                                   Kevin P. Centanni
>                                   Dept. of Computer Science
>                                   Tulane University
>                                   New Orleans, Louisiana
>                                   {ulysses,akgua}!tulane!kpc
>                                   ulysses!tulane!kpc@Berkeley.ARPA

   To make the demonstration *really* believable, Mr. Newman should
(after starting the machine) connect its output back to its input and
let it power itself indefinitely. That will certainly prove that it
generates more power than it takes in.

   By the way, as an electrical engineer I don't see any difficulty
in powering 12 fluorescent tubes (each five feet long) and a neon sign
with several lantern batteries.   All you need is a flyback transformer
for voltage conversion (there are several possible designs with mechanical
switches, which would be characterized by their producing a spark every
tenth of a second or so).  The lantern batteries have plenty of power,
at a low voltage.  Let's not confuse voltage with power.

		Giovanni Vannucci
		AT&T Bell Laboratories      HOH R-207
		Holmdel, NJ 07733
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