Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> At 12:32 PM 23/04/99 +0200, Anders wrote:
>
> >it will not produce perpetual motion
>
> This ever popular idea *isn't* a p.m.machine. It's simply a way of
> extracting energy from the gravitational field beneath one mouth and using
> it to drive a turbine. It's not essentially different, it seems to me, to
> the decades' old idea of mining a black hole's energy by lowering junk into
> it on a rope.
No, it would just mine the wormhole energy. Somehow I think we can use wormholes for better things.
Putting one end inside the sun's atmosphere might be one way of getting energy from the wormhole: don't let the plasma pass (would close it), but put a heat converter through. If anybody does it I want them to call it Lieserl :-)
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