Harry Veeder writes, > http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/
> 10 Dec. Magnets Meddle With Melting > Physicists puzzle over finding that a magnetic field raises the melting point of ice. > Could this phenomenon be used as a source of energy? Probably not unless there was substantial assymetry. After all, "pressure" (or lack thereof) can alter the melting point, but it is fully reversible with no nonreciprocal element, therefore no chance for OU. >From a previous post: "Vortexians seem to be always looking for something new which fits into the idea of nonreciprocality : such that a source of potential energy (i.e. magnet or static field) + efficient means of modulating potential energy + nonreciprocal element = OU" Of course a magnetic field could be efficiently modulated by simply spinning the magnet, but it will now help unless the is the *nonreciprocal element* in the physical property. The "information" provided by any Maxwell's Demon type-device provides one generalized notable feature: the characteristic of classical nonreciprocality and asymmetry. Devices like gyroscopes, Hall effect devices, Faraday effect devices, and microwave isolators are examples of classical nonreciprocality, but it has been difficult to fashion an energy device out of them because the asymmetry is miniscule. Jones
