From: jimp@gonzo.specsol.net   
      
   Athel Cornish-Bowden  wrote:   
   > On 2025-02-25 21:24:56 +0000, Jim Pennino said:   
   >   
   >> neus  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Out there in space, there are all those energetic particles flying about.   
   >>>   
   >>> If they could be harnessed and put to work, we would have unlimited power.   
   >> The same can be said for lightning and cow farts.   
   >   
   > The same could also be said of all those water molecules in the   
   > swimming pool rushing about in Brownian motion. There would just be the   
   > little matter of the 2nd law of thermodynamics to overcome, but one of   
   > our local geniuses could surely find a way to do that. After all,   
   > Arindam Banerjee already knows how to make a perpetual-motion machine.   
   >   
      
   There was a scifi story a LONG time ago where the drive was a field that   
   made the Brownian motion in an object all go in one direction...   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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