On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:44:26 +0000, Paul Burridge wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:18:28 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
wrote:

Please forgive my naivete, but this is a joke, right?

It's a "thought-provoking metaphysical discussion." Care to
participate? ;-)

Well, yeah, except that it's so simple to "explain away" by just
saying that you're not paying for the electrons themselves that
are just passing through, but the energy required to get them
to do that passage.

They've got the motor, you've got the wagon. The electrons
are just a medium, conceptually indistinguishable from the
way a V-belt transfers energy.

I've said this in other FUs kinda ad nauseam, tonight. :-)

Thanks,
Rich

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:04:59 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
wrote:

Well, yeah, except that it's so simple to "explain away" by just
saying that you're not paying for the electrons themselves that
are just passing through, but the energy required to get them
to do that passage.

Big deal. All they've got to do is pull some carbon rods out of a pile
of radio-active crap and the job's done. How hard can that be?
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:38:36 +0000, Paul Burridge
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:04:59 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
wrote:

Well, yeah, except that it's so simple to "explain away" by just
saying that you're not paying for the electrons themselves that
are just passing through, but the energy required to get them
to do that passage.

Big deal. All they've got to do is pull some carbon rods out of a pile
of radio-active crap and the job's done. How hard can that be?

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I think that's kinda what they thought at Chernobyl...

--
John Fields