Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 10 October 1940 — Perpetual Motion [ARTICLE]

Perpetual Motion

Payette, Idaho, city boosters think they have a close approach to perpetual motion in their city-owned well. It not only produces water for irrigation but also the fuel by which the pumping equipment is driven. A huge supply of gasoline-content natural gas underlying a nearby valley is responsible for the phenomenon. An ordinary automobile motor is used to pump the water. It is first primed with ordinary gasoline to start the water containing natural gas up the pipe line. City officials say the unusual system has saved nearly $3,000 in the past year.