Re:Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and pub...
by PepeGomez on Saturday April 09, 2016 @03:43AM
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You can't. You can increase the efficiency that way, but you can't use it to produce limitless energy. We wouldn't be burning fossil fuels if that was an option.
Re:Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and pub...
by jdmichal on Sunday April 10, 2016 @04:37PM
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You're not "producing" limitless energy. You're reusing the existing energy, because the energy cannot be destroyed. Again, there's no reason why this can't be done within a closed system, except for our technical limitations. Indeed, tracking and recovering energy is the entire idea behind reversible computing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing#Physical_...
Now, whether we can effectively use the energy is an entirely other question. There's plenty of technical limitations. But in a closed system there's no reason an object cannot have perpetual motion with perfect energy recovery. Of course, closed systems don't help us, because they cannot exert useful work outside of the system.