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On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:25:05 -0700, Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>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.
>
>Pentcho Valev
Where do you see a violation?

It's at best a nice trick to lift water electrostatically,
but nowhere you gain anything in terms of energy
or entropy.

w.