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3.12sKATZ: And Professor Fisherprice Shpeekenshpell.
1.4sMALE VOICE: The cow says...
5.69s(MOOING) He proved that 50 years ago, and he's been coasting on it ever since.
4.87sI am the esteemed Professor Morris Katz, and you are wasting my time.
1.1sProceed.
2.47s(CLEARING THROAT) Imagine, if you will...
1.77sOh, God.
6.31sA gigantic spherical generator, one that could provide unlimited energy because it's essentially in perpetual motion.
3.52s(SCOFFING) Young lady, have you been drinking?
2.87s(CHUCKLES) Well, yes, but that's not revelant.
3.55sI'm talking about Earth. Earth's the generator.
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4.3s(SHEEP BLEATING) Suppose this basketball is the whole world.
2.69sTo many young men in the inner city, it is.
3.57sAs it spins, it's producing an enormous magnetic field.
3.14sIf we could use that field to generate electric current,
7.91swe could actually harness the Earth's rotational ener... Ener... (SNEEZES) Yes, tapping the Earth's ener-kerchoo.