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There's a large university in that town and it has a Physics department. Before this bloke spent his money building this thing, he should have called them up a

There's a large university in that town and it has a Physics department. Before this bloke spent his money building this thing, he should have called them up and asked them a few questions.

ratww 5y ago
At the end of the page it seems the university offered some unrequested advice on the second law of thermodynamics. It was dismissed on the grounds of the sun being "eternal" and gravity being an energy that can be "harvested" in the same way solar energy can.
- vasco 5y ago
  They are right in the sense that you can count on the earth to pull your stuff down for free, they just forgot they have to put it back up themselves.
  - drran 5y ago
    Earth rotation and Moon orbiting can do a massive amount of work (see tide waves), but energy density is very low.