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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4331)	2/25/2008 1:55:15 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

There were allegedly attempts to invent perpetual motion machines, but mostly people have given up on that. Car manufacturers understand physics and don't try to run their cars by absorbing energy from the pressure of the air coming in the front. In no way was I talking about perpetual motion; I was just talking about adding a little more juice to a hybrid. Maybe I'm missing something... Currently hybrid batteries get charged by braking, and braking is obviously a necessary efficiency evil. Just as drag is a necessary evil when you move an object at high speed through air. Why not recapture a bit of that friction with turbines behind the grille, and feed that power into the hybrid battery? Or are you saying that the turbines would increase the drag, all else being equal?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4331)	3/1/2008 4:26:40 PM
From: gg cox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

""PS: We remain very ignorant because perpetual motion machine can be created, as proven by us being here. The Cosmos is one giant perpetual motion machine. We have no idea how it works. We talk about gravity and stuff, but remain bewildered and certainly can't make perpetual motion machines ourselves - even small ones, let alone big ones like the Cosmos. Entropy and drag are obviously reversible. Don't ask me how. "" Religious practitioners, take note. Maurice has provided you with a Sunday sermon.<<gg>>It brought to mind Jimmy Carter, being able to separate science and faith into separate categories, believing in both.