This device apparently uses the kinetic energy of the moving water in the stream to lift itself up against the force of gravity.  Or maybe energy was used to pump it up.  So far, so good.

But then it releases the water and extracts more energy than went into lifting the water!  Wow.  Would an average 10-year-old kid believe this?

And what happens after five years?  Does it evaporate? Self-annihilate? Implode? Rapture itself into heaven?

Miracle in the Physics of Hydrokinetics

Earlier today, I was sitting near two women whose conversation went like this:

Woman #1: I’m so happy to hear that President Trump will be relocating the Palestinians from Gaza, enabling him to give that land to Israel and establish what he calls the “Riviera of the Middle East” along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

Woman #2: Are the Palestinians unhappy in their home?

I’m thinking: Well, I haven’t interviewed any of them personally, but they have been living there since the Bronze Age, about 5000 years ago.

“Relocating” the Palestinians

Re: the meme here, I wonder what the people living in the happiest nations on Earth would say.

From the 2026 World Happiness Ranking, here are the top 6:

• Finland (7.76)
• Iceland (7.54)
• Denmark (7.54)
• Costa Rica (7.44)
• Sweden (7.26)
• Norway (7.24)

Notice anything?

They are all social democracies.  Their average citizens pay slightly higher taxes, but a) they receive free education and healthcare, and b) there is virtually no poverty.

On Capitalism