-=>Quoting Lorin Potter to Chris Shepherd <=-
CS>I had an idea spring into my head about what example we could use of a
CS>naturally occuring perpetual motion device. The Earth is.
LP>Chris, it's a very silly argument that you have.  The source of power
LP>for the earth is the sun, which is a solar furnace that is burning up.
LP>Not perpetual motion.
Considering the supposed millions, if not billions of years of solar
life remaining relative to ours - I would be willing to conceede that
the sun's rays are endless.
That is not the biggest problem with his argument, however. There's
'free' energy all around us. The problem is in *using* it. We seem to
only know how to harness energy by taking advantage of the flow of
energy between a source and a sink.
The day is comming when we can extract energy from just the source.
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