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August 29, 2006

Drunk Irishmen invent perpetual motion machine

Apparently, some former oil company people in Ireland have discovered a new kind of physics that allows a simple arrangement of magnets on a wheel to produce more energy than it consumes. In short, ladies and gentleman, they have invented a perpetual motion machine that violates classical physics, as well as common sense. This is, of course, not the first time the Irish have violated common sense. The first and most heinous violation of common sense on the part of the Irish was the creation of Guinness.

There is a test rig with wheels and cogs and four magnets meticulously aligned so as to create the maximum tension between their fields and one other magnet fixed to a point opposite. A motor rotates the wheel bearing the magnets and a computer takes 28,000 measurements a second. The magnets, naturally, act upon one another. And when it is all over, the computer tells us that almost three times the amount of energy has come out of the system as went in. In fact, this piece of equipment is 285% efficient.

That's a lot of "free energy" and, supposedly, a slap in the face for one of physics' most basic laws, the principle of conservation of energy: in an isolated system (the planet, say), energy can be neither created nor destroyed; it can only be converted from one form into another.

Don't believe it? Well, neither did they at first.

"We couldn't believe it at first, either," says McCarthy, chief executive of the company.

See? But now that they've done all this research and offered a challenge to anyone willing to try and disprove the technology they are actually getting some attention.

Is it just me or does this feel like some kind of email scam to you?

Posted by mcblogger at August 29, 2006 09:27 AM

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The jab at Guinness was uncalled for, Boyo. You're just one neighborhood over from insultin' me dear Irish mother.

Posted by: Harry Balczak at August 29, 2006 09:56 AM

ugh. I forgot inhouse counsel actually drinks this liquid nasty. sorry, my hungarian-mick friend.

Posted by: mcblogger at August 29, 2006 10:19 AM

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