With the cost of fuel going down, it may be time to look at ways to make sure we don't get burned again. There are a number of people out there doing just that- trying to come up with a machine which will furnish free energy. Or at least run from it's own power (perpetual motion ). Of course such a machine would violate the third law of thermodynamics. Be as it may, these inventors toil on in obscurity, trying to find a solution to building their new machine.
To Die For , is not so much a history of attempts at building these infernal devices, but a look into current researchers. There are some surprises here. A retired auto mechanic in France has constructed a giant wheel which seems to move under it's own power. A Scandinavian artist shows a machine which runs continuously for days on end. Of course, there's the devil's advocate: an American engineer who is offering a prize of $10,000 for the first person who can successfully demonstrate a perpetual motion machine. So far, no takers.
Along the way we run into people who tie their efforts into UFO's, angels, Tesla, and The Unexplained. It's a big, strange world out there. A few of the researches seem sincere, a lot come across as just plain nuts.
But if just one of these people can find a break-through, we'll have free energy. And that's what keeps them forging ahead.
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