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No surprise but I guess it didn't work, the article is from 2016 and the website no longer exists...



The article is from 2016? It looks like it's from 2013 to me, though admittedly updated in 2015.

I found some surprisingly open-minded English-language coverage, also from 2013:

https://e-catworld.com/2013/09/28/brazilian-company-building...

https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/new-gravity-driven-gene...

> One blogger with a Brazilian radio station dismisses the project as an impossible perpetual motion machine. Even if it’s not quite that, University of Illinois Electrical Engineering Professor Peter Sauer said he’s never seen a gravity-driven device work without some additional energy input.

Didn't see any coverage after 2013. I wonder what the idea was. You can't announce a perpetual motion machine without being aware that there's no such thing.




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