{"id":1613,"date":"2006-08-20T00:37:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T07:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/20\/wishful-science\/"},"modified":"2006-08-20T00:37:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T07:37:54","slug":"wishful-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/20\/wishful-science\/","title":{"rendered":"wishful science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more round for <a href=\"http:\/\/english.ohmynews.com\/ArticleView\/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&#038;no=312047&#038;rel_no=1&#038;back_url=\"> John Galt&#8217;s motor<\/a> aka the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perpetual_motion\"> perpetuum mobile<\/a>. Didn&#8217;t Tesla invent something like that?<\/p>\n<p>Since everything we have accomplished is based on energy, it seems not surprising that people continue to dream up scenarios where energy would become free.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice?<\/p>\n<p>Well, then we would need to rewrite the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laws_of_thermodynamics\"> Laws of Thermodynamics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more round for John Galt&#8217;s motor aka the perpetuum mobile. Didn&#8217;t Tesla invent something like that? Since everything we have accomplished is based on energy, it seems not surprising that people continue to dream up scenarios where energy would become free. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice? 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