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Author: Jarek Duda
Date: Aug 28, 2008 08:59

Ok - imagine empty tube, which internal surface is covered with
perfect mirror. Now near it's one end place two separators -
reflective on the end of the tube and transparent to its middle.
Place hot gas between the separators. It's isolated thermally, but it
produce thermal photons. The only way photon can escape is through the
second end of the tube, so it would work as jet engine - because
photons have momentum in one side, the tube has to get momentum into
the second. And we have stream of photons we can use to create work
somewhere else.

Above example uses that despite that kinetic energy of molecules
behave randomly, each one has specific movement/oscillation, which
energy can be changed into ordered one - electromagnetic oscillation
of photon.
You will say that the problem is with perfect mirrors, but they are
just a perfect isolator for thermodynamics of photons.
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