So I know you responded to me 21 years after the original post, and this   
   response is 6 years after your reply, but yes your correction is accurate.    
      
   The Sundiver is absorbing higher entropy energy in the form of white light,   
   and ejecting lower entropy energy in the form of its blue refrigerator beam   
   (if I remember the details well enough 27 years later).   
      
   Consequently the refrigerator laser is an entropically unfavorable device, and   
   should result in an inability to continue to direct the energy into the   
   refrigerator laser, at least through such pedestrian means as chemical   
   reactions. Perhaps some sink of    
   entropy has been discovered at the nuclear level? Well, maybe Brin just didn't   
   think it through.   
      
      
   rickrussell@gmail.com , formerly WRUSS00@ricevm1.rice.edu   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)