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Comments on Profile Post by daniel_gudman

  1. daniel_gudman
    daniel_gudman
    Not Conservation of Mass or Energy, those still got obeyed. So, like, you could have a spell that could turn ashes back into wood, but you'd need to like, plug the magic circle into an electrical socket, and you'd have to provide a source of CO2 to replenish combustion byproducts, and the temperature would go down as it sucked heat energy out of the surroundings, and stuff like that.
    Dec 9, 2017
  2. daniel_gudman
    daniel_gudman
    So like FMA alchemy, only even more rigid.
    Dec 9, 2017
  3. Plotvitalnpc
    Plotvitalnpc
    So we could combat warming by making a bunch of devices which transform atmospheric heat into electricity?
    Dec 9, 2017
  4. daniel_gudman
    daniel_gudman
    I see where you're going, but no actually -- because electricity always turns back into heat, and pretty quickly. All energy eventually turns into heat, that's basically what entropy means. If you wanted to decrease the temperature, you'd have to lock the energy into a stable form, like bond enthalpy for really stable compounds or something.
    Dec 9, 2017
  5. Plotvitalnpc
    Plotvitalnpc
    My thinking was more that we could replace our energy needs by turning heat into power, thus allowing us to not use fossil fuels for power in much of the world...at least, in the months that aren't cold.
    Dec 9, 2017
  6. Subrosian Smithy
    Subrosian Smithy
    You get perfectly reversible computing?
    Dec 9, 2017
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