two turbines, each powered by the steam from a simmering pot of refried beans. the waste heat they generate all goes towards continuing to refry the other's beans. the future.
Centrifugal Force's one year anniversary was a couple weeks ago, so in honor of that I present you: almost 10k words of Lovebug smut.
Thanks so much for everyone who's followed me on this journey! I love you all (no romo (full homo))
Important note about the future of my fics in the beginning author's note, regarding AI and how visible my stuff is. TL;DR: on the 16th I will be marking them all for registered users only.
idc how many sciencey ppl explain it, the fact that magnets can't create free energy is just mind boggling to me. I can't really wrap my head around the fact that there are rocks that pull shit together/apart forever and we can't harness its power. I get why bc laws of gravity and whatnot but still...
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On January 4, 1718, the seals on a locked room were broken open, and a team of investigators heard the unmistakeable sounds of a machine at work. Before them, a wooden wheel, measuring twelve feet in diameter and fourteen inches thick, turned on an iron shaft. The inner system of gears and pulleys was hidden behind a tightly stretched oiled canvas. This wheel had been spinning continuously, at twenty-six revolutions per minute, for nearly two months, and had strength enough to lift a box of stones. Johann Bessler had invented a perpetual motion machine.
This story goes against the law of the Conservation of Energy. Bessler had invented a way to get more energy out of a machine than he put into it. Orffyreus, as Bessler renamed himself, was a wild and wildly paranoid man. After years of ridicule, he was now under the protection of Count Karl of Hesse-Cassel, a region that later became a part of Germany. This third model of his invention was built in a garden shed and then transferred to a room in the castle. A thorough examination of the space eliminated suggestions that the wheel was aided by a hidden human being or turned via a cord from another room. The investigators were impressed. Professor Willem Jacob Gravesande, a Dutch mathematician who later became a professor of physics and astronomy and was responsible for laying the foundation for teaching physics, wrote to his friend Sir Isaac Newton, lauding the invention.
Twenty thousand pounds was the price that Orffyreus wanted to reveal the secret to his machine. When no one offered the money, Orffyreus's benefactor was finally allowed a glimpse of it. The count saw an ingenious system of weights on the ascending side of the wheel, which were prevented from following their path next to the rim by small pegs that swung out of the way as the weight passed the zenith. Shortly afterwards, the inventor locked himself up with the wheel and an axe and smashed his life's work to bits. Orffyreus became an embittered wanderer who died in November of 1745.
Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009