Posted by Pete (81.131.195.207) on August 16, 2003 at 09:38:52:
In Reply to: Re: Grim question posted by grim on August 11, 2003 at 13:01:05:
Grim,
Is there realy a law against building a PMM in the US?
Pete.
: : Hi Grim,
:
: Hi Mike
: The current jobbie is all steel, at least the mechs. If one is trying to be "historically accurate", then wood would have to be involved, I would imagine.
: If one is constructing their own "I don't care about that" design, then I guess as far as materials then anything would fly.
: Just went to a site, FYI, that stated it was against US Federal law to construct a "perpetual motion machine" that would prove detrimental to
: the petroleum industry and utilities. Before I take that at face value, will search US Code.
: Thank goodness there's "no such thing", huh?
: Regards
: grim