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3. I'll check the paper out when I get home from work. The laws of thermodyamics...
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 12:07 PM
Jun 27

...are very unpopular at DU, which is why we hear so much bullshit about batteries and worse, hydrogen.

Unhappily for our "renewable energy will save us" types who confuse energy storage with energy and environmental wisdom - wrong on both counts - the laws of thermodynamics are not affected by wishful thinking.

It may be impossible to reach absolute zero - other than the metaphorical absolute zero in the White House - but it is also impossible to "correct" Einstein, based on the fact that he's dead. One can of course address his ideas which survive him, but not him. A technical quibble perhaps but nonetheless valid.

Thanks for the post.

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