A Machine To Die For

Even though it is scientifically impossible, generations of inventors have been mesmerized by an idea - the promise of an engine that powers itself. This series follows the stories of totally sincere and committed inventors like Aldo Costa, who has spent fifty years building a kind of giant ferris wheel in France, or the American, John Bedini, propagating a whole race of tiny electric motors that drive themselves. The series tracks obsessed oddballs like David Hemel, who, under instructions from aliens that live in his television, is building a huge granite powered spaceship in the Canadian wilderness. Great ideas and great inventions are all guesses, all begin in faith and are nurtured by optimism, and advance in the teeth of resistance.