On Jul 18, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
I should add that the optimists in the free-energy world need not be totally disheartened with the "stunningly exactly zero" verdict, as this only underlines the necessity of finding, and building on, a basic asymmetry - which has always been the challenge.
For sure. The "stunning" part is because the black holes get to have the cake and eat it too. Mass-energy is stored away in the singularity exactly as fast as it is radiated away. Now *that* is free energy! The practical problem is the need to be around one of those all eating things to get the energy. If one got lose into the earth it would be bye-bye earth - assuming the theory is right of course. I worry about the Large Hadron Collider. They assume the black holes it creates will evaporate. I'm not so sure about that.
Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
