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| From | Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics.relativity |
| Subject | Re: Obvious Violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics |
| Date | 2016-09-25 14:39 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <e4p2ngFnb5uU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <8ef00883-2a01-41fa-8533-3a8e24e155df@googlegroups.com> <e64d1d6b-ab64-4989-bc49-73eb81ddce98@googlegroups.com> |
On 24/09/2016 3:05 AM, Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog wrote: > On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 3:06:27 PM UTC-5, Pentcho Valev wrote: >> In the following two videos one switches the capacitor on and off and the system can repeatedly lift floating weights: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHNwvfXUYb4 >> Rise in Liquid Level Between Plates of a Capacitor >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6KAH1JpdPg >> Liquid Dielectric Capacitor >> >> Switching the capacitor on and off involves no work done on the system > > Don't be silly. Of course work is done on the system. > >> so the energy for the work done BY the system (if it repeatedly lifts floating weights) can only come from the environmental heat, in violation of the second law of thermodynamics. > > No violation of the second law. What makes you fantasize that there is no drain > on the power source? > Pentcho never replies to a posting other than his own. Sylvia.
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Obvious Violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-22 13:06 -0700
Re: Obvious Violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 10:05 -0700
Re: Obvious Violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-09-25 14:39 +1000
Re: Obvious Violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-24 17:21 -0700
Re: Obvious Violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics bartekltg <bartekltg@gmail.com> - 2016-09-25 10:39 +0200
Re: Obvious Violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics bartekltg <bartekltg@gmail.com> - 2016-09-25 10:32 +0200
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