> "The law of conservation of energy has been very reliable for 300 years,
> however it's missing one variable from the equation, and that's time," said
> McCarthy.

Well, it's all very simple, then, really.  You see, since this technology is
only a recent development, the energy source it harvests has never been
harvested before.  Presumably, whatever that energy source is, it has
existed since the beginning of the universe ca. 15 billion years ago.

Since this device is unfettered by the restrictions of time (and space, too
I'd guess, since I seem to recall something about time and space being
pretty closely linked), it can filch this energy from the past, from
everywhere in the universe, all at once.  And the past will never run out
of energy, right?

Sounds like something Douglas Adams wrote about.

And, like fetid dingo's kidneys, to boot.

Mike H.
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