On 17/10/2007 12:22 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
> http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/533411/?sc=dwhp
>
> In this story from NIST, an RF circuit is used "cool" a tiny silicon
> cantilever similar to the tuning forks used in 'quartz' watches but
> smaller and vibrating at 7,000 cycles per second, its natural
> ³resonant² frequency.
>
> Now in a broad (mis)use of verbiage, one could opine or over-generalize
> that this is creating "ice from fire"... from wave-energy, in a way.
>
> Well, it is a conversion or transfer of one form of energy to another,
> and even if it is conservative, it can offer some insight on how other
> resonant circuits might operate to "bootstrap" thermal or magnetic
> vibrations into an electrical circuit - and give the appearance of OU
> when in fact they are taping into a bit of ambient energy.
>
> In this case above the experimenters cooled the miniature lever from
> room temperature down to -228 C - quite impressive.
>
> I mention this experiment in the context of a ferrite core, where an
> (un-noticed) one degree or less, delta T change in entropy could
> perhaps- be converted into milliwatts of another form of energy ?
>
> Jones
>
The issue then becomes -- as I have suggested before -- does a business
have enjoy an unlimited right to treat energy as a commodity?
Consider the air we breathe. Is the air for sale? Should it be?
Why _should_ energy be for sale?
Personally I think power providers only have a right to charge for the
energy they used to build their system.
Beyond that level they would charge for the (power)/(time interval)
and not for the energy used = (power)x(time interval).
It is curious that there is no common term for the former quantity.
Harry
