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I am puzzled. Work amounts to organized energy
(elevating an object, for example) while heat amounts
to random molecular energy. An engine creating
macroscopic order out of microscopic disorder,
without creating disorder elsewhere, does seem
to violate the second law of thermodynamics.
Where is the "elsewhere" required by the law?