Re: Faraday isolators

[Chuck Britton <britton@ODIE.NCSSM.EDU>]

> Certainly the "one-wayness" is a similarity, but Carl's point is that it at
> least seems that the "one-wayness" of the Faraday isolator can be used to
> violate the second law of thermodynamics, by letting an object radiate all
> of its internal energy to its (higher temperature) environment.  Can the
> "one-wayness" of a diode be so (even seemingly) used?
>
> Bob Sciamanda
> Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (ret)
> trebor@velocity.net
> http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

As long as we're playing 'make believe' we could use an 'ideal' diode to
rectify thermal electrical noise, thereby separating charges, creating
energy out of nothing.

Feynman had a similar perpetual motion machine of the second kind in his
lecture books that used an 'ideal' ratchet to wind a spring.

It's no accident that stressed          Chuck Britton
spelled backwards is desserts.          britton@odie.ncssm.edu