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... fuel . Strange to say , water is used today to augment the power of some aircraft jet engines ( it converts to steam in the combustion chambers ) , but it is not fuel . WW Fig . 50. The magnetic motor was another candidate for perpetual ...
... fuel . Strange to say , water is used today to augment the power of some aircraft jet engines ( it converts to steam in the combustion chambers ) , but it is not fuel . WW Fig . 50. The magnetic motor was another candidate for perpetual ...
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... fuel for the reactor . If the Second Law of thermo- dynamics is not exactly shattered by this , then it has certainly become a little bent . What really happens is worth taking a minute or two to explain because it does savour of the ...
... fuel for the reactor . If the Second Law of thermo- dynamics is not exactly shattered by this , then it has certainly become a little bent . What really happens is worth taking a minute or two to explain because it does savour of the ...
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... fuel they produce will finally fuel reactors not yet built . Perpetual motion ? Alchemy ? The philosophers ' stone ? Nuclear science is far and away removed from such notions but it poses some interesting challenges which can be viewed ...
... fuel they produce will finally fuel reactors not yet built . Perpetual motion ? Alchemy ? The philosophers ' stone ? Nuclear science is far and away removed from such notions but it poses some interesting challenges which can be viewed ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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