Re: et cetera

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

I think the quarrel is with the final statement: "The EPA says it's trying
to figure out whether the project will increase pollution from coal-fired
generators, since it would consume energy faster than it produces it."
This last phrase can be said of any energy transformation device with less
than 100% efficiency.

(A nit picker might add that the statement is untrue because energy is
conserved and the project produces the apparent difference in "heat
energy" - "useful energy" is perhaps implied.)

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor


----- Original Message -----
From: paul o johnson <pojhome@FLASH.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 3:33 PM
Subject: et cetera


> . . . For example, the item on p. 373 of the recent September issue
entitled
> "Could It Be Designed Any Other Way?" Is there something strange or
> humorous in this story that is going over my head? . . .