A heat engine which beats the Carnot efficiency will be developed before 2050

Created by btrettel on 2015-09-07; known on 2050-01-01

• btrettel estimated 0% on 2015-09-07
• Serge estimated 3% on 2015-09-08
• olivia estimated 0% on 2015-09-09
• btrettel said “Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1wa4da/nanoscale_heat_engine_exceeds_the_standard_carnot/” on 2015-09-09
• btrettel said “By “developed” I mean a device will be built and the efficiency will be measured and verified by objective third parties at the least.” on 2015-09-09
• JoshuaZ estimated 1% on 2015-09-09
• splorridge estimated 0% on 2015-09-13
• PseudonymousUser estimated 1% on 2015-09-13
• bshih estimated 1% on 2015-09-14
• Raahul_Kumar estimated 10% and said “The paper establishes that laws of physics don’t forbid it. But only an experiment can prove if this is actually true.” on 2015-09-18
• PseudonymousUser estimated 20% and said “Should’ve read this first: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.5935v2.pdf” on 2015-11-27