Re: solution to the world's energy needs

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

A former student of mine just pointed me to this web site yesterday.  One
of the happy byproducts of this engine is apparently a net decrease in the
entropy of the universe.  After all, the explanation seems to be, the
second law is merely a statement of probability not necessity.

I was skeptical as well but then it occurred to me that there does seem to
be an awful lot of excess entropy running around these days and it would
be a fine thing if someone could figure out a way to make productive use
of it and show some of it the back door.

Need I add, ;-) ?  (But in anticipation of Bill Beatty's scorn for my
closed mindedness, I WILL believe it when it is shown to work.)

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, David Bowman wrote:

> I just came across a web site <http://www.entropysystems.com> for a
> company that proports to sell engines that operate as perpetual motion
> machines of the second kind.  They call them entropy engines and they
> supposedly operate on the "Amin cycle" named for one, Sanjay Amin, who is
> one of the principal shareholders of this new company and presumably the
> "brains" behind this venture.  Supposedly the engines are powered by
> the heat, er, thermal energy in the ambient air and discharge colder
> air as exhaust.

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm