Re: There's work, and then there's work

[David Rutherford <drutherford@SOFTCOM.NET>]

Rick Tarara wrote:
> Having read this never-ending thread can I offer one comment.
>
> Even IF it is valid to talk about the energy of the positive charges, it is
> NOT energy that is 'stored' in any meaningful use of the word.  There is no
> way to recover that energy.  The calorimetry experiments that Ludwik
> suggests DOES measure the energy that is usefully stored in the capacitor
> and that can be recovered.

And IF Ludwik's calorimetry experiment DOES measure the energy of the
positive charges, then that energy is usefully stored in the capacitor
and there IS a way to recover that energy.

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