Paul wrote: > Harry Veeder wrote:
> As Harry clearly understood, the future energy > production will increase exponentially if > people have "free energy." That is not exactly what I meant. Regardless of whether energy is "free" or not in the future, if heat production continues to grow at the current rate humanity will become non-trivial producers of heat. > Why would a scientist put forth so much effort in > building a machine that *adds* energy > when it is far easier to build a machine that *moves* > ambient energy? If we only build the sorts of devices you are proposing then, if too much ambient energy is *moved* into the motion of vehicles and machines, we might be at risk of a global cooling. What we need is a new philosophy of energy which subsumes the laws of thermodynamics. Perhaps an ecology of energy... Harry
