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To: maceng2 who wrote (22361)	7/23/2008 1:29:15 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 36917

Consider the case to a dark red colored Honda car, parked in Scotland overnight. The night sky has been clear yet the surface air temperature did not drop below 3 degrees C. Radiant heat from the car roof lowers the temperature to below freezing to such an extent that water condensed onto the cold surface freezes. The sleepy engineer, not wanting to be late for work, wonders why there is no frost around except on the roof of his car. It includes the windscreen too... how annoying! Maybe this is why Rahmstorf talks of energy flow rather then heat flow. Both the windscreen and roof were next to air that was above freezing point. Was the second law of thermodynamics defied? The evil demons that introduce Murphy's laws into all engineers lives, have they even broken the sacred second law of thermodynamics just to try and make him late for work ???????????????? No my friends, Rahmstorf was correct, only the demon that is the internet itself hinders this morning. So I must be gone. The caloric (liquid flow) theory of heat is dead, but Pierre Prévost and his theory of exchanges rule the night sky under the auspices of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics!

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