This is the latest (11 Apr, 03) IRI - Future Energy eNews. You can read the entire newsletter in our "Editorials & Newsletters" section. Here is the interesting table of contents:
1) Report Generates Negative
Energy by offering the "wrong" answers for Energy
Technologies for 2050. Another scandal of "shooting
the messenger" by the DOE Fossil Energy Program through
the Rand Corporation. (Update yourself with the attached USDOE Annual
Energy Outlook 2003 - 2025 Chart, from www.eia.doe.gov with
production, consumption, and import figures -- in color -- print "landscape"
for bigger hardcopy image.)
2) Energy R&D Needs More
Investment say the UK who have the laudable goal of a 60%
reduction in CO2 by 2050. (Suggestion: look at the
breakthrough energy research IRI has already accomplished, ready for
development.)
3) A quantum Carnot
"photon steam engine" extracts work and energy from
a single heat bath (like the zero point energy vacuum for example). Hot atoms
flow from a heat bath at temperature Tφ to an entropy
sink at a lower temperature T1. The atoms exchange energy
with photons in an optical cavity, which drive a piston. (Cites the Scully
articles in #4 and #5. -- Become a quantum mechanic, top pay, unlimited travel
and energy. - Ed.)
4) Heat from a Single Bath addresses
the concerns about the Second Law of Thermodynamics and shows that the quantum
world allows bending of the rules with coherence. (Dr. Scully)
5) The Quantum Afterburner would
improve engine performance beyond that of the ideal Otto cycle without
violating the laws of thermodynamics and power a laser. (Dr. Scully)