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To: Casaubon who wrote (54820)	6/21/2000 11:29:00 AM
From: Mark Ivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

OT Casaubon, I had heard of the hybrid car idea of turning the braking action back into energy to be stored in the battery. I always thought it was more that the tires were connected to a generator to do the braking action, and the generator would charge the battery. I did not realize it was "heat" back to electricity. At any rate, I don't think there is a way to reclaim energy from heat unless there is a delta Q involved. In other words, if the whole world was 212 degrees, you'd not be able to get any energy from that heat converted into another energy source. However, if just your house was 212 degrees and it was 70 degrees outside, you could pump the heat from the house outside to a boiler and them use steam to turn a turbine and generate electricity. The steam would then condense back to water to be heated again. Like I said, if the whole world was 212 degrees this would not work. Thus my idea of the global network of pumps, pipes, and water. I agree we could not use the polar ice caps for cooling; but we could use a house in Argentina in the winter to cool our hot water we are sending it in the summer so that we may cool ourselves. The idea would not be to change the enviroment at all, but just to heat and cool our buildings using the opposite hemispheres heat/cold. I know there are MANY issues with the idea, but could it not work?? At least getting the water from my house in NC down to Argentina would be free since it's all downhill (VBG). Mark