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It actually covered that in the article “According to Kumar, the graphene and circuit share a symbiotic relationship. Though the thermal environment is perform
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It actually covered that in the article
“According to Kumar, the graphene and circuit share a symbiotic relationship. Though the thermal environment is performing work on the load resistor, the graphene and circuit are at the same temperature and heat does not flow between the two.
That’s an important distinction, said Thibado, because a temperature difference between the graphene and circuit, in a circuit producing power, would contradict the second law of thermodynamics. “This means that the second law of thermodynamics is not violated, nor is there any need to argue that ‘Maxwell’s Demon’ is separating hot and cold electrons,” Thibado said.”
- gus_massa 5y agoThat part is confusing. Anyway, if you see the animation in the video, they are trying to makes a device that use this effect to collect the charge in a capacitor and then release the energy in a resistor, and that proposed device breaks the second law, in particular is more clear with this version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics#Planck's_proposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics#P...
- Firmwarrior 5y agoMan, I saw this article, and I was like "Huh, that's impossible.. but it's on HN, surely it's not complete BS" turns out I just got in a little too soon.. ugh