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Professor Daniel Sheehan discusses the limitations of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and new research that defies standard thinking about heat engines and may offer a path to a new kind of energy generation.
Daniel Sheehan is a professor of physics at the University of San Diego and has explored experimentally testable challenges to the second law of thermodynamics for more than 25 years.
In 2002 he organized the first international conference on the limits to the second law, and in 2005 coauthored the first mainstream treatise on the subject.
Professor Daniel Sheehan discusses the limitations of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and new research that defies standard thinking about heat engines and may offer a path to a new kind of energy generation.
Daniel Sheehan is a professor of physics at the University of San Diego and has explored experimentally testable challenges to the second law of thermodynamics for more than 25 years.
In 2002 he organized the first international conference on the limits to the second law, and in 2005 coauthored the first mainstream treatise on the subject.
