Jun 13 2008
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“ Why do people fall for this? There’s no rocket science here: you can’t get more energy out than you put in. That’s a very simple concept. But some very smart people fall for this stuff. I’ve got a huge amount of respect for Teresa Nielsen Hayden. She’s a very smart lady. And yet she didn’t immediately see that this couldn’t be true. Why? Those of us on the science side of things are clearly failing to educate people about very simple scientific ideas. How can we do better?
— Good Math, Bad Math : Perpetual Motion via Fuel Cell
(Read the article. Mark Chu-Carroll saves me a bunch of typing regarding this)
(Read the article. Mark Chu-Carroll saves me a bunch of typing regarding this)
