[extropy-chat] energy from osmosis

[Damien Broderick]

At 04:17 PM 10/1/2005 -0700, Spike wrote:

>We could then hook up a water wheel and
>have a perpetual motion machine. Now we know
>something is seriously wrong, but what?

Stipulating your analysis for the sake of argument, nothing at all is 
wrong, because it's *not* a perpetual motion machine -- unless a windmill 
is one too, and a solar energy photovoltaic panel, and...

Damien Broderick