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On Jun 5, 1:37 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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-...
> "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."

Sheehan sent me a copy of one of his papers, once, when such things
were thinkable on sci.physics.