The Perpetual Notion Of Perpetual Motion

Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 19:21 in Physics & Chemistry

The Perpetual Notion Of Perpetual Motion Is there some way we can teach our children that there is no such thing as a free lunch?  Perhaps then they will not grow up to think that problems can always be solved - if only we throw enough crazy unscientific ideas at them. The laws of thermodynamics dictate a simple policy of universal application.  It is one that policy makers must be forced to understand: mother nature will not permit us to reverse a fossil fuel energy production process without using more energy than the process has itself released. read more

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