> TANSTAAFL!

I never understood this description of an N machine, which is
on DePalma's site and also in an old folder of documentation I
have, produced by one of his NZ partners, Bruce Cathie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cathie

"DePalma is quick to point out that the N machine is not a
perpetual motion machine, that mythical contraption long
sought by many frustrated inventors. "The perpetual motion
machine is only supposed to run itself. It could never put
out five times more power than is put into it. Perpetual
motion schemes used conventional energy sources, whereas
the N machine is a new way of extracting energy from space."

I always believed that one point of an over unity machine,
up to 500% if recall for an N machine, was that some of the
excess energy produced can be used to run it. My guess is
that by not calling it a perpetual motion device, DePalma
would not raise the hackles and eyebrows of many skeptics

Joe
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