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From: swift@reed.UUCP (Theodore Swift)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.physics,net.sci
Subject: Re: Perpetual Motion (magnetic field)
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 04:17:38 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  6 04:17:38 1985
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Distribution: net.sci, net.physics
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Keywords: mag fields, orbits
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Summary: Where the *free* energy comes from

Earth's energy
>of rotation.  Naturally, this will cause problems only for the NBS in the near
>future, though I have not worked out the effects of a widespread industry based
>on something like it.  By the way, NBS is the National Bureau of Standards, who
>among other things are responsible for setting the time by dawn and sunset.
>		Dave Harmon
>		harmon@h-sc1.arpa

Wouldn't the above suggested method of generating power also tend
to take energy from the orbit?, i.e., unless you fire a rocket to
replace lost momentum, your orbit decays.  As for the earth slowing,
there is much more drag from tidal effects than would be noticable
from a space station.  
If I'm wrong on this, as I was wrong about the lifting power of
hydrogen, lemme know.