Suppose you learned these wonderful laws of physics and they
seemed so elegant and right. And you didn’t really understand how these simplified
forms only applied to frictionless, air-resistanceless situations and to things
like ideal gasses.
Then you looked around the real world and you notice that things
harder to move than they should be. You aren’t able to get as much of what you
want for a given energy expenditure as you expect. You check with a physicist and hear that some
of the energy is going to Waste-heat-ists.
You ask ‘Waste-heat-ists? What are they good for?’
‘Oh nothing, they just add to the disorder of the universe.’
‘Why are we giving them energy?’
‘Oh we discover we could use this thing called the second
law of thermodynamics and now that we are using a system of Waste-heat-isum;
things are going just marvelously’
You think to yourself, well maybe for they are going
marvelously for Waste-heat-ists, but what about ordinary people like you? You
are putting energy into all these things and a bunch of it is being stolen by
these Waste-heat-ists.
You ask engineer friends if Waste-heat is really a good
thing. ‘Oh, no,’ they say, ‘We’re always trying to reduce it. But we can’t ever
get rid of it entirely; it’s this second law thing we can’t get around.’
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These evil Waste-heat-ists and their evil cronies have
enacted this pernicious ‘second law’. Feel the indignation rise up in you. Waste-heat-isum
is a leach on society, taking from good, hard-working people and producing
nothing but chaos.
Can’t you see how wrong this would seem? If this was the
level of your understanding of waste-heat, wouldn’t you see if from this
perspective? Think how much more energy there would be to go around if we didn’t
have waste-heat taking some away. We
could have abundance if Waste-heat-isum wasn’t producing artificial scarcity. Obviously
we should free ourselves from our shackles and over throw the Waste-heat-ist
system.
