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"Pentcho Valev" <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:1191216305.321224.304200@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
> http://www.physorg.com/news110191847.html
> "When exposed to a high-voltage electric field, water in two beakers
> climbs out of the beakers and crosses empty space to meet, forming the
> water bridge. The liquid bridge, hovering in space, appears to the
> human eye to defy gravity."
>
> In a strong electrical field water dipoles are ordered in such a way
> that thermal agitation of molecules causes a SPECIFIC PRESSURE inside
> the liquid. In certain experiments this specific pressure can lift
> water: the energy needed for lifting is in fact heat absorbed from the
> surroundings. If lifted water is allowed to leave the field (for
> instance, when water has been lifted between the plates of a
> capacitor, the specific pressure could push it through a hole in one
> of the plates), the liquid will form, ideally, an eternal waterfall
> outside the strong field. Perhaps the device cannot be of any
> practical use as a heat engine but still it violates the second law of
> thermodynamics.
>

Actually, no it doesn't.  Look at how much energy is put into the electric 
field to create and maintain it.  Here's a hint, when the water moves, does 
it affect the electric field?

daestrom