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From: quiroz@rochester.UUCP (Cesar Quiroz)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc,net.research
Subject: Re: Joseph Newman's Energy Machine
Message-ID: <12375@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 11:45:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocheste.12375
Posted: Thu Oct 17 11:45:24 1985
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References: <173@tulane.UUCP> <463@iham1.UUCP>
Reply-To: quiroz@rochester.UUCP (Cesar Quiroz)
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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Keywords: nonsense
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Summary: No way! (Just press 'n')

(Do I really want to post this?) Sensible people please press 'q', 'n'
or whatever is appropriate ...

From article <463@iham1.UUCP> (gjphw@iham1.UUCP (wyant)):
>
>    ...
>
>    Newman is working on a healthy paranoia concerning his difficulties in
> obtaining a patent.  ...	
Sigh! Potential explanation ahead.
>
> ...                        On the other hand, I can appreciate Newman's
> refusal to permit this until the patent is safely in his possession.
>
Me too.  Problem is, there may be *nothing* to patent, which can delay the
procedures a bit.

It may well be true that Newman's machine exhibits some behavior of interest
to science (or entertainment).  But 800% energy efficiency??????  WAKE UP!
As somebody already suggested, what about starting the thing in series with 
a single bulb, a la

battery | thing | bulb 

and then switching the output to go from the bulb back into the input ports of
the machine, bypassing the battery?  Unless the bulb and the wiring display a
rather remarkable resistance, I would expect a large fraction of the 800% to 
remain around.  Want to see if the bulb (or the machine) fuses away?  Now, THAT
would be a demo.

Cesar (Ever heard of exponential growth?)
-- 
Cesar Augusto  Quiroz Gonzalez

Department of Computer Science     {allegra|seismo}!rochester!quiroz
University of Rochester            or
Rochester,  NY 14627               quiroz@ROCHESTER