tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781672.post6523995577698745004..comments2024-03-03T21:52:36.774-06:00Comments on A trainwreck in Maxwell: Does anyone in the MSM pump their own gas?KurtPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12205267944616413162noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781672.post-19354834098478286702011-03-11T07:11:37.772-06:002011-03-11T07:11:37.772-06:00What? You're telling me there's no perpetu...What? You're telling me there's no perpetual motion machine that's run on Unicorn farts and skittles?<br /><br />I'm shocked.KurtPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12205267944616413162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781672.post-32336952754100058072011-03-11T06:17:50.913-06:002011-03-11T06:17:50.913-06:00There is a strange phenomenon called the Casimir E...There is a strange phenomenon called the Casimir Effect, that causes attraction between metal plates closely spaced, that gives many people the idea that energy can be extracted from the ether.<br /><br />As an electrical engineer, I've got a gut feeling that someday we may be able to tap into this energy, and have Star Trek style warp ships and antigravity, but if there was anything at all to these schemes, somebody would have made it public domain, if for no other reason to create global chaos.<br /><br />I have better hopes for the badly funded electrostatic confinement fusion research, see <br />http://www.fusor.net/<br />but our present financial condition pretty much says the government ain't gonna produce it for us, let alone President Unicorn.<br /><br />Whenever links lead me to KeelyNet, I shudder. Most of that stuff is only for the most credulous believers.<br /><br />I've got several Tesla biographies, and never read about that Pierce Arrow before - and 70L7 tubes don't produce a whole lot of power in any case... :)<br />(In case you wonder: http://www.classiccmp.org/rtellason/tubedata/70L7-GT.PDF)Chuck Kueckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16105077930739459751noreply@blogger.com