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Old 11-27-2017, 10:23 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jakobnev View Post
Converting heat into work without a temperature difference would violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
I’m not sure it has to.

Can overall entropy increase because of a localized decrease of one form of energy?

An ICE generates energy by cooling combustion gases

This proposed device would cool local atoms creating a heat differential with the environment and electricity.

That said how would one collect energy out of a many ghz signal at the nano level?

Sounds unpossible
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