Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:00:17 -0500:
Hi,
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Because it doesn't. It's a magnetic motor -- permanent-magnet-based
engine -- and there's no mechanism for it to "steal heat" from the
environment, nor any evidence whatsoever that it does so.
It's type-1 perpetual motion: violation of the first law, which is
conservation of energy. If the Steorn motor works, then a Steorn motor
operating in a closed environment will warm up that environment.
If it works at all, then I'd be more inclined to believe that it is deriving
energy from an unexpected source, rather than creating it.
One off-beat possibility is a time distortion field. I wonder if clocks in the
surroundings run at a different speed? :)
Time or inertia distortions are a distinct possibility if zero point
energy is being tapped and Haisch, Rueda and Puttoff are right that ZPE
is the energy behind inertia, gravity and thus all potential energy.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_electrodynamics
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Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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