John,
I think you are misreading Stan’s comments a little. [Stan: please correct me
if I am wrong about that.] I think it would be fair to say that older car
engines were less well fit "between the energy gradient and the system
attempting to utilize it”. Another way of saying this is that
S: In decline in the actual material world that we inhabit. That is, the local
world -- the world of input and dissipation. I think the information problem
may be advanced if we try to explain why the energy efficiency of any work is
so poor, and gets worse the harder we work. This is the key
John wrote:
Catching up after a myriad of distracting problems.
At 03:51 PM 2014-08-25, Stanley N Salthe wrote:
Bob wrote:
Recall that some thermodynamic variables, especially work functions like
Helmholz & Gibbs free energies and exergy all are tightly related to
information measures. In
Catching up after a myriad of distracting problems.
At 03:51 PM 2014-08-25, Stanley N Salthe wrote:
Bob wrote:
Recall that some thermodynamic variables, especially work functions
like
Helmholz & Gibbs free energies and exergy all are tightly related
to
information measures. In statistical mechan
