Re: wormhole gravity pump

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
24 Apr 1999 19:17:01 +0200

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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