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From: jlg@lanl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "Free Energy Machine"
Message-ID: <213@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 16:26:18 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 16:26:18 1986
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In article <326@inuxm.UUCP> arlan@inuxm.UUCP (A Andrews) writes:
>I will say this now, and wiat for the flames:  I myself can construct
>(as does my character in the story) a machine that once I have turned it
>on, utilizes "free energies" from natural phenomena, never e requiring me
>to input anything else--"something for nothing".

I too can build such a device.  It's called a windmill - or maybe
a water wheel, or a geothermal plant, a solar collector, a ....

The point is that none of these things violate the first or second
laws of thermodynamics - which is apparently what is claimed by the
inventor on the carson show.

J. Giles
Los Alamos