# I guess I don't need to pay my electric bill now!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 21, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-i-dont-need-to-pay-my-electric-bill-now/110140 "2002-05-21T18:23:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-i-dont-need-to-pay-my-electric-bill-now/110140/1 "2002-05-21T18:23:19Z")

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Wow.

[Here’s](http://www.jasker.com/) 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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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-i-dont-need-to-pay-my-electric-bill-now/110140/2 "2002-05-21T18:45:03Z")

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The same people who would buy antenna extenders for their cell phones and ab-blasters for their fat guts.