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NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Prospects for a fairly efficient Maxwell?s Demon. Let the fast-moving molec?

By Glenn Reynolds

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Prospects for a fairly efficient Maxwell’s Demon. Let the fast-moving molecules through while stopping the slower ones — or vice versa — and you can heat or cool without expending much energy, if the process of choosing is efficient enough. Maxwell’s thought experiment used a demon opening and closing a tiny door, but it’s not impossible to imagine doing the same thing with nanoscale systems.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).