The Fool wrote: > > > From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The Fool said: > > > > > You'r not creating more energy than is already been used, your > > > recycling a small portion of it. > > > > Thus your scheme doesn't violate the first law of thermodynamics (the > > conservation of energy). The second law, in one of its forms, says that > > you can't move heat from a cold object to a hot object without putting > > energy into the system (in a more quotable form, it says "the entropy > of > > a closed system never decreases"). This is the reason that > > refrigerators consume energy. (In your example of a CPU, you're moving > > heat from the hot CPU to the cold surroundings. You could do this with > > a passive heatsink if the CPU power was low enough, but most use fans > > simply to carry heat away more effectively.) > > > > It's probably worth learning some thermodynamics. It's interesting > > stuff. > > > > Rich, who hasn't really thought about it properly for five or six years > > and who ought to refresh his memory of the details soon. > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/15/1810211&mode=thread&tid=134
That's an awfully long page. Wouldn't it be more to the point to post the link http://www.coolchips.com/technology/overview.shtml and then recommend that anyone wanting to read further discussion go to the slashdot page? (I'm assuming that the whole point is the announcement of the technology. The slashdot page has an awful lot of noise for the signal useful to the discussion here. Not that everything not germane to our discussion is noise per se, just that it would be a lot nicer to get the information in a smaller page.) Now, if I'm way off on what you were trying to communicate, please narrow it down to a small section of the slashdot page. Thanks! Julia
