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Old 05-21-2002, 01:23 PM
Bricker Bricker is offline
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I guess I don't need to pay my electric bill now!

Wow.

Here's a machine that, once started, will run on it's own self-generated power until its parts wear out. And it generates additional electricty for your use.

Helpfully, the inventors tell us that it's NOT a perpetual motion machine.

Seems to me I just described a perpetual motion machine...

Who would get suckered by such a thing?
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Old 05-21-2002, 01:45 PM
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The same people who would buy antenna extenders for their cell phones and ab-blasters for their fat guts.
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