Abstract
Makarieva et al. (2010) assert that a dissipative heat engine is impossible and criticize earlier published work that they claim violates the laws of thermodynamics. Here we show that the earlier work does not violate fundamental physical laws and suggest that Makarieva et al. (2010) were misinterpreting expressions for wind speed as ones for work done on external objects. Moreover, we dispute their assertion that dissipative heating is necessarily compensated by a reduction of external heating.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-6 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |
Volume | 467 |
Issue number | 2125 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 8 2011 |
Keywords
- Carnot
- Heat engine
- Hurricane
- Tropical cyclone
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mathematics(all)
- Engineering(all)
- Physics and Astronomy(all)