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Old 11-21-2007, 00:44 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Think of it this way. Pick up a rock. Drop it. What?! It broke? Wow, that's a lot of kinetic energy! This could be a vast energy resource!!

Exactly the same principle here. You're starting with water, and ending up with, guess what? Water. It's a state function. It don't matter how you get there, if you end up where you started.

'Cept, of course, that in the real world you always lose a bit as heat.
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