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Subject: Re: Radiation
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:27:16 +0100
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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.


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.