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The Energy Sucker, a perpetual motion machine of the second kind



For those interested I've placed what I think is a cute
puzzle on our server as a document in pdf format. Fire
up Netscape and open URL:

ftp://ftpserver.sfu.ca/pub/papers/palmer

Click on file es.pdf and open the result with Adobe
Acrobat reader. The reason I'm using this format is that
I feel it would be useful to be able to exchange graphic
materials in this group from time to time. I could
attach the document (which is less than 10 k) to this
message, but a significant fraction of correspondents
seems to have difficulty translating the result of such
an operation. I will be glad to e-mail the file to
anyone who requests it.

I will reveal my simple resolution of the problem,
which can be understood using high school physics, if
there is sufficient interest in it in the group.

Leigh

I have no home page or crafty signature, but check out
http://www.clark.net/pub/dmpalmer/ee/ee.html