The purpose of sorting "hot bits" from "cold bits" is to create a temperature difference. I am assuming a temperature difference is already given, for example like the difference in temperature between the interior and exterior sides of a window pane in winter.
Harry On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:55 PM Gibson Elliot <gibsonell...@yahoo.com> wrote: > So you want to build a demon. That proverbial creature that can sort hot > and cold bits. New research has created a wonderful Graphene energy > harvester you might be interested in. I guess you could attempt to use > minor spatial perturbations an use that. but for any real energy, ya just > can't get past mass and acceleration without some serious joules. Did you > know when Nitinol is bent it creates molecular heat in super elastic mode, > and it goes through a similar cooling when it relaxes? food for thought my > friend about energy differentials and thermal effects on an atomic scale. > Always seems to come back to compression/relaxation phases don't it? > > G > > On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 01:04:59 PM PST, H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > This challenge is inspired by the title of Gene Mallove`s book "Fire From > Ice". > > A major engineering goal in the past was to make ice from fire. That is > given a very hot reservoir and ambient temperature, build a machine which > will cause water to freeze. > > Can a complementary machine be built which will cause water to boil given > a very cold reservoir and the ambient temperature? Has this already been > done? > > Harry >
