Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Perpetual Motion Machine?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> > If there is nothing in contact with a perpetual motion machine then 
> > it's easy to do as then you have nothing to stop whatever motion you 
> > put into it to begin with.
> Friction and gravity would stop it.  Even the rotation of the earth is 
> slowing, and I have been told that the slowing is due to friction, but 
> friction against what I do not know.
Friction and gravity is interaction with outside forces.
> That's a new one on me.  I have always read that a perpetual motion 
> machines were supposed to be a perpetual motion machines:  They would 
> move forever without an energy entering from outside.  A lot has been 
> written about this and your ideas seem a little different than those 
> of more knowledgable people.
Most people seem to want a machine that outputs more energy than is put 
in. Is that not the part you always hear about?
> I will accept that the free energy machine is a more worthwhile 
> project and also one that is much more likely to be achievable.
Cool.

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