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From: dbb@aicchi.UUCP (Burch)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc
Subject: Re: "Free Energy Machine"
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 21:50:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 21:50:55 1986
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Organization: Analysts International Corp; Chicago Branch
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Keywords: Ord-Hume, Perpetual Motion, Barometers
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Summary: Such machines are old news, but of limited use...

In his wonderful book "Perpetual Motion", Ord-Hume describes several machines
which although they are not classic perpetual machines (They do have a source
of energy), will run for very long periods of time.  The impressive one was a
clock that contained a HUGE mercury barometer.  The daily fluctuations in the
barometric pressure were sufficient to keep it fully wound.  Benj. Franklin was
the first to build a static machine, and it is reported that he used one to
drive a spit in his fireplace.  The real problem with a static machine is what
to do with it in a lightning storm.  When I was a teenager, I built a static
machine in a shed on our property, and erected a rather tall bamboo tower (from
the scrap bamboo that carpet used to come wrapped on) to hoist the antenna
grid.  Well, the first summer storm came along, and POOF, no shed...
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-David B. (Ben) Burch
 Analyst's International Corp.
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