Hacker News with Generative AI: Thermodynamics

Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws (ckrapu.github.io)
The removal large quantities of carbon from Earth’s atmosphere is one of the most promising pathways to avoiding or mitigating the worst effects of global warming or climate change.
Climate Change, Thermodynamics, Environmental Science
124 points by ckrapu 65 days ago | 173 comments
The Gravo-Thermal Catastrophe (wordpress.com)
In 1962, V. A. Antonov did some remarkable simulations showing that even in Newtonian mechanics, gravitating systems can violate the usual rules of thermodynamics. Instead of reaching equilibrium they can get hotter and hotter!
Physics, Thermodynamics, Simulation
105 points by terryf 73 days ago | 35 comments
What Is Entropy? (arxiv.org)
This short book is an elementary course on entropy, leading up to a calculation of the entropy of hydrogen gas at standard temperature and pressure.
Science, Physics, Thermodynamics
33 points by sebg 77 days ago | 5 comments
Extropic: Thermodynamic Accelerated Computing (twitter.com)
Thermodynamics, Computing, Science
7 points by zoogeny 119 days ago | 1 comments
The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2011) (franklambert.net)
Physics, Thermodynamics, Science
145 points by luu 141 days ago | 67 comments
Negative Temperature (wikipedia.org)
Physics, Thermodynamics, Science
30 points by dave1010uk 148 days ago | 15 comments
New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation (santafe.edu)
Thermodynamics, Computation, Science
103 points by dlojudice 203 days ago | 32 comments
Solid-state polymer heat pump gets rid of the heat itself (arstechnica.com)
Solid-state, Polymer, Heat Pumps, Thermodynamics, Energy
11 points by xbmcuser 207 days ago | 0 comments