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Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

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Not if the thermodynamic laws hold true.

... That's exactly what I was referring to? You seem to be confused. Your responded to a post stating that energy is never destroyed, with the sentence: "Energy is about the only resource where this doesn't hold true."

Once you use the energy and it turns into heat, you can no longer use it.

Re: Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

#212

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... That's exactly what I was referring to? You seem to be confused. Your responded to a post stating that energy is never destroyed, with the sentence: "Energy is about the only resource where this doesn't hold true."

Once you use the energy and it turns into heat, you can no longer use it.

First, heat is energy. Second, you can use heat as heat. Third, you can use heat to boil water to turn a turbine to create electricity, which you can use to do very many things, including create heat.

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#213

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Once you use the energy and it turns into heat, you can no longer use it.

First, heat is energy. Second, you can use heat as heat. Third, you can use heat to boil water to turn a turbine to create electricity, which you can use to do very many things, including create heat.

No, you can't do that. If you could do that, you could build a perpetuum mobile.

Re: Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

#214

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First, heat is energy. Second, you can use heat as heat. Third, you can use heat to boil water to turn a turbine to create electricity, which you can use to do very many things, including create heat.

No, you can't do that. If you could do that, you could build a perpetuum mobile.

Yes, you can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat_recovery_unit

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.

Re: Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

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No, you can't do that. If you could do that, you could build a perpetuum mobile.

Yes, you can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat_recovery_unit 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.

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 public health [pdf]

#216

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Yes, you can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat_recovery_unit 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.

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.

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_...

Re: Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

#217

What do you mean by "litre"? What do you mean by "used"? What do you mean by "produced"?

Hi James,

I have tried to contact you many times through your wrapbootstrap site, but all attempts have sadly been ignored. So, I'm going to try this route. I recently purchased a theme on your site, but I never received the download link, even though I paid for it. What are you going to do about it?

Thanks, Nicholas Marx

Re: Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

#218

What do you mean by "litre"? What do you mean by "used"? What do you mean by "produced"?

Hi James, I have tried to contact you many times through your wrapbootstrap site, but all attempts have sadly been ignored. So, I'm going to try this route. I recently purchased a theme on your site, but I never received the download link, even though I paid for it. What are you going to do about it? Thanks, Nicholas Marx

James, I know you want to ignore me, but you cannot. Just refund my order through PayPal. Just do the right thing, and this will all be over. I will not rest until I get my $18, that you have stolen from me!
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