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JerryVan wrote:

soundgen wrote:What you need is a perpetual motion machine , David Jones who used to write in New Scientist under the pseudonym of Daedalus is always making them , he used to offer a prize if anyone could work out how they were powered , they just run and run ! Here is one in the Technical Museum of Vienna
It's been going for years !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHQ33OFljOg

It's a Sterling Cycle heat engine. They can operate at very small differences in heat energy.

But they still need an energy input !


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

Hot air ( sterling ) motor gramophone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssp3XxPESGo

soundgen wrote:Hot air ( sterling ) motor gramophone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssp3XxPESGo

It's actually a "Stirling engine". Invented by Robert Stirling.

Who needs perpetual motion? When my phonos need winding, I pull my finger (pushing buttons is for chumps), Amazon sends a drone, which brings a robot that winds the Victrola, takes a picture of me, uploads it to my facebook, instagram and twitter accounts, bills it to my Google/Youtube account, lets the NSA know that I'm still good and safe, and texts me a list of suggested 78s to play, updated in real time. Done and done.

Cody K wrote:Who needs perpetual motion? When my phonos need winding, I pull my finger (pushing buttons is for chumps), Amazon sends a drone, which brings a robot that winds the Victrola, takes a picture of me, uploads it to my facebook, instagram and twitter accounts, bills it to my Google/Youtube account, lets the NSA know that I'm still good and safe, and texts me a list of suggested 78s to play, updated in real time. Done and done.

Cody K wrote:Who needs perpetual motion? When my phonos need winding, I pull my finger (pushing buttons is for chumps), Amazon sends a drone, which brings a robot that winds the Victrola, takes a picture of me, uploads it to my facebook, instagram and twitter accounts, bills it to my Google/Youtube account, lets the NSA know that I'm still good and safe, and texts me a list of suggested 78s to play, updated in real time. Done and done.

I rather doubt if their suggested list would include 'The Sheik', or 'Afghanistan', or "Allah's Holiday"….

Bill

Perhaps it would work playing "Moto perpetuum" (Comedian Harmonists' version, please!) ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1SYwy5tc5E


( Wonder what Robert Biberti is glaring-at... )

Cody K wrote:Who needs perpetual motion? When my phonos need winding, I pull my finger (pushing buttons is for chumps), Amazon sends a drone, which brings a robot that winds the Victrola, takes a picture of me, uploads it to my facebook, instagram and twitter accounts, bills it to my Google/Youtube account, lets the NSA know that I'm still good and safe, and texts me a list of suggested 78s to play, updated in real time. Done and done.

Unfortunately it wom't happen , all the Amazon drones will be shot out of the sky as target practice !

soundgen wrote:

Cody K wrote:Who needs perpetual motion? When my phonos need winding, I pull my finger (pushing buttons is for chumps), Amazon sends a drone, which brings a robot that winds the Victrola, takes a picture of me, uploads it to my facebook, instagram and twitter accounts, bills it to my Google/Youtube account, lets the NSA know that I'm still good and safe, and texts me a list of suggested 78s to play, updated in real time. Done and done.

Unfortunately it wom't happen , all the Amazon drones will be shot out of the sky as target practice !

Wouldn't be surprised, in some locales...

Be careful. Those things can see you, and they have flame throwers.