<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite">They say it produces 3 times as much energy as it consumes, and they<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have the output connected up to the input, so I don't understand why it<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">doesn't spin faster and faster until it explodes.<br></blockquote><br>Because, according to the video, it dissipates a lot of kinetic energy as heat. A sort of very slow, controlled explosion, if you like.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div>They must be using some VERY cheap bearings! If it produces 3 times as mush energy as it uses and the output is connected to the input it should melt down into slag. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark<br><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>