Chris Shepherd wrote in a message to Joe E. Dodson:
 JD>There is micro-gravity in space, and there is still friction.
 CS> Yes, but not enough to make that much of a difference.
 CS> Granted, you'd have to have power stations in between two
 CS> galaxies for it to make any amazing amounts of power. Then,
 CS> how's this sound. We use gravity in space. I was thinking
 CS> about what you said. I just want to know what would be wrong
 CS> with this: 
 CS> You have a space station, like the one in 2001, which uses
 CS> cyntrifical force as gravity. Place at the center a
 CS> generator which uses something similar to a flywheel and
 CS> magnets. Would the flywheel not spin eternally (almost) if
 CS> you gave it a spin and shut the compartment. Remember, here
 CS> at the center gravity is pulling equally in all directions,
 CS> so they cancel each other out. 
 CS> Would that maybe work?
No,  it wouldn't.  In a situation like that,  as soon as you start trying to 
_use_ some of that rotational energy,  it'll start to slow things down...
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