Thermodynamics and the metabolic advantage
There are a lot of disagreeable jobs out there. Dealing with Anthony Colpo is one of them. Trying to make sense of thermodynamics is another. Whereas dealing with AC is kind of like the job pictured at the left – distasteful but fairly simple – delving into the workings of the laws of thermodynamics is intellectually challenging but far from easy. Problem is, it appears kind of easy, and everyone, it seems, fancies himself to be an expert. (How many people have we heard blather on about how a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, thinking they are accurately stating the 1st law of thermodynamics?) But the truth is that the more you study thermodynamics and the more you seem to learn, the less you really understand.
I’ve had a family medical emergency that’s been occupying my time for the past week so I haven’t really had the consolidated time I’ve needed to finish off Part II of the AC book critique, but I haven’t forgotten about it. I should have it up in a day or two.
Until then, I’ll give you a little thermodynamics to chew on so you, too, can see that it is far from simple.
I’m taking a short break from the great Anthony Colpo smackdown to report on all the goings on with the ‘wretched’ choral society and the Beatles concert. As I’ve mentioned before, MD has been pushing for a Beatles concert since she’s been the president (her three-year term will be mercifully over on June 30, and I’ll have my wife back). It’s all come to pass with a whole lot of help from a whole bunch of people. And, thanks to all this effort by all these people – especially Brooks Firestone – it has turned into a much, much huger event than she had ever imagined.
I’ve got to apologize in advance for the length of this post, but in order to thoroughly do what needs to be done, it took the space.
I’m just getting back to my desk after a several days in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.








