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MrFrety
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As a start for discussion I'd like to make the following bold claim:
Both the problems of enough usable energy and global warming can be resolved by implementing Maxwell's demon on a large scale.
To justify this bold statement somewhat, I'd like to point to a (relatively) recent successful (partial) experimental implementation of a Maxwell-demon:
https://phys.org/news/2016-02-physicists-photonic-maxwell-demon.html
Scenario for large scale implementation:
- Two giant neighboring enclosed containers of atmosphere
- Sorting gasparticles by velocity (velocities higher than average in, say, right capsule) (=Maxwell's Daemon)
(ideas to do so: Wien filter, Opening window of one container at highest temperature of the day and the other at lowest)
- Temperature difference can be used to do work, while cooling the gas
(Sorting doesn't have to be perfect, but the more we sort, the more we can violate the second "law" of thermodynamics, which is just a probability statement assuming we have no control whatsoever over the microstates of the gas.)
Both the problems of enough usable energy and global warming can be resolved by implementing Maxwell's demon on a large scale.
To justify this bold statement somewhat, I'd like to point to a (relatively) recent successful (partial) experimental implementation of a Maxwell-demon:
https://phys.org/news/2016-02-physicists-photonic-maxwell-demon.html
Scenario for large scale implementation:
- Two giant neighboring enclosed containers of atmosphere
- Sorting gasparticles by velocity (velocities higher than average in, say, right capsule) (=Maxwell's Daemon)
(ideas to do so: Wien filter, Opening window of one container at highest temperature of the day and the other at lowest)
- Temperature difference can be used to do work, while cooling the gas
(Sorting doesn't have to be perfect, but the more we sort, the more we can violate the second "law" of thermodynamics, which is just a probability statement assuming we have no control whatsoever over the microstates of the gas.)
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