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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!edscom!rpt
- From: rpt@edscom.demon.co.uk (Richard Tomlinson)
- Subject: Re: Wasted power, or is it?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.090351.11370@edscom.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
- References: <459@mx1>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:03:51 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <459@mx1> ar@mcdd1.uucp (Alastair Rae) writes:
- >
- >In article <1993Jan15.103541.29368@alex.com> dave@alex.com (Dave Quinn) writes:
- >>
- >> What ARE you talking about? "The power used by the devices is dissipated as
- >> heat"? Bollocks it is!
- >
- >Energy flows in. Energy flows out. It can't stay in the device and it
- >certainly isn't going back to the national grid!
-
- If the device were to rise against gravity, it would be storing potential
- energy available for release later. So it can stay in the device.
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- Richard Tomlinson, EDS Scicon Ltd, Wavendon Tower, Milton Keynes, UK MK17 8LX
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