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A few years ago, at the 2002 First International Conference on Quantum
Limits to the Second Law, I tried to draw the attention to the fact
that charged capacitors immersed in water develop a strange pressure
between the plates, a pressure that, on close inspection, seems to
violate the second law of thermodynamics:

http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/643/430/1

http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev2.pdf

The scientific community remained silent and hostile but now I see the
idea that capacitors can violate the second law has been developed
ever since:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.4818v3.pdf
"Recently (Physics Letters A 374 (2010) 1801) the concept of vacuum
capacitor spontaneously charged harnessing the heat absorbed from a
single thermal reservoir at room temperature has been introduced..."

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0904/0904.3188v4.pdf
"In this paper we describe a vacuum spherical capacitor that generates
a macroscopic voltage between its spheres harnessing the heat from a
single thermal reservoir at room temperature. (...) The author wishes
also gratefully acknowledge stimulating and encouraging discussions
with Prof. Daniel P. Sheehan (University of San Diego) during the
preparation of an early draft of the manuscript."

Bravo, Daniel P. Sheehan! You were hostile in 2002 but now I see you
have taken some notice of what I told you. Your triumph will come
soon:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/13/quantum-challenge-usd-professor/
"Clean-cut and middle-aged, a tenured professor at a conservative
Catholic university, Sheehan is hardly a rebel. Yet for years, he and
a few other physicists have been pressing peers to re-examine the
Second Law of Thermodynamics, one of the most celebrated and cherished
tenets of physics. (...) But Sheehan suggests big things are possible
if even the tiniest of violations can be proven, and ultimately
exploited in an economically feasible way. For example, it might
become possible to convert ambient heat into an infinite energy
source, he said."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com