Re: Gasoline vs. battery

BillW50 wrote:

In news:6cqd5gF3hdqg2U3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
John Henderson typed on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:29:19 +1000:
BillW50 wrote:

Does an electron traveling around an atom violate
thermodynamics?

Not unless energy gets extracted without affecting that
motion. Remember, there's no frictional or electromagnetic
losses. We're dealing with quantum mechanics here, not
classical Newtonion physics (which are an approximation).

Don't forget that an electron requires heat to travel around
an atom. As it can't happen at absolute zero. Surely one
should be able to (someday) tap the energy from it. And once
this is done, one can argue that is only the heat of the
sun(s) that allows us to do so. As long as it is cheaper than
fossil fuels, I say so what?

I'll await your ground-breaking paper on what's wrong with the
third law of thermodynamics. You know, the one about entropy.

John
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