[FRIAM] "free energy"

[Roger Critchlow]

Well, in thermodynamics we have a Gibbs free energy (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_free_energy) and a Helmholtz free energy
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_free_energy).

Free energy is not free in the sense of free beer or of free speech, it is
free in the sense of being liberated by a transformation.

Given the context, your celebrants were probably talking about free (beer)
energy?

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On Dec 26, 2007 3:48 PM, <PPARYSKI at aol.com> wrote:

>  At a Christmas eve party here in Santa Fe (the city very different) , a
> number of new age or whatever folks were talking about "free energy" which
> they claimed was a scientific reality.  Being somewhat of a sceptic and
> cynic, I cried out a Dickens'  humbug. But thought I would toss this out to
> the FRIAM list to see if anyone knew anything about so-called "free
> energy".  cheers Paul
>
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