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Originally Posted by Wes Tausend
Well, actually it would work if that was the only limiting consideration. I'll explain.
Being full of sh!t gives me a fertile mind, if you get the sorry pun of my drift.
Wes
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On the scale of the water wheel it works because the energy put in is more that the parasitic drag on the wheel... on your railroad, the drag would very quickly overcome any efficiency realized by the gravity fed cars coming down the hill loaded with coal... it is too far to the powerplant to make it work... thus the perpetual motion reference.
As for the electric power superhighway, once low-cost room temperature superconductors are found, this will become a reality
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'Til then, you are stuck doin' what you're doin', so keep on truckin'
... the stockholders are hungry
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