At 11:36 am 30/04/2006 -0600, you wrote: >Harry Veeder wrote. >> >> >> Eugene Mallove's perspective: >> >> The Mysteries of Myths of Heat: A Brief History of Hot and Cold >> Published in Issue #37, May/June 2001 >> >> http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue37/mysteries.html >> >Interesting reading Harry. >But you can bring a bucket of minus 77 K cold Tc from a >comet in space and let it do work in compliance with the >Carnot efficiency by letting it warm to 300 K Th >( room temperature) using an "engine". > >Carnot efficiency = .1 - Tc/Th or delta T/Th. = 74.33 % > >Fred
Or even tow an iceberg to a warmer clime and use it to both run a Stirling engine/dynamo and provide fresh water. You would own both of the Monopoly Board Public Utilities (assuming that is the US board has the same utilities as the British). Frank I've just looked it up..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#Properties_in_detail .....and they do. 8-)
