Re: Radiation

Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 2025-02-25 21:24:56 +0000, Jim Pennino said:
 

neus <neus@elk.net.inv> 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...