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... natural gas in the North Sea , for example , to conjecture how long one small burner might be fed from the reservoir . A million years ? Probably more . A small borehole or natural fissure , closed over with a block of porous material ...
... natural gas in the North Sea , for example , to conjecture how long one small burner might be fed from the reservoir . A million years ? Probably more . A small borehole or natural fissure , closed over with a block of porous material ...
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... natural uranium it would release as much energy as three million pounds weight of coal . Thus even the dubious one per cent of this is a valuable end - product . The efficiency sounds on the low side because , with present systems , the ...
... natural uranium it would release as much energy as three million pounds weight of coal . Thus even the dubious one per cent of this is a valuable end - product . The efficiency sounds on the low side because , with present systems , the ...
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... natural uranium has been fissioned . What the process is doing is converting a product of combustion into a quantity of fresh combustible material . The breeder reactor is an infinitely more effective converter of natural material into ...
... natural uranium has been fissioned . What the process is doing is converting a product of combustion into a quantity of fresh combustible material . The breeder reactor is an infinitely more effective converter of natural material into ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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