{"id":541,"date":"2004-06-05T21:12:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T21:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/05\/UsingPerpetualMotionToPumpWater.aspx"},"modified":"2004-06-05T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-05T21:12:17","slug":"using-perpetual-motion-to-pump-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/05\/using-perpetual-motion-to-pump-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Using perpetual motion to pump water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A limitless source of power has been tapped by South Africa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130910020550\/http:\/\/www.roundabout.co.za\/main.htm\">Roundabout<\/a>.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve created a well pump driven by a merry-go-round.&nbsp; As the children play, pushing the merry-go-round, a pump pulls water up from the ground into a storage tank.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Say, that reminds me&#8230;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Emeka, the matrix has you.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT size=1>(via <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/06\/04\/merrygoround_water_p.html\"><FONT size=1>boingboing<\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=1>)<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A limitless source of power has been tapped by South Africa&#8217;s Roundabout.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve created a well pump driven by a merry-go-round.&nbsp; As the children play, pushing the merry-go-round, a pump pulls water up from the ground into a storage tank. Say, that reminds me&#8230; Emeka, the matrix has you. (via boingboing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webweird"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}