Second law stuff

Wesley R. Elsberry (welsberr@inia.tamug.tamu.edu)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 00:38:21 -0600 (CST)

David Bowman writes:

DB>A counterexample usually happens every night in most
DB>ecosystems. Essentially most of the exposed plants, bacteria,
DB>fungi, and cold-blooded animals (indeed every organism that is
DB>not warm blooded and which has a negligible growth rate) tend
DB>to have their body temperatures drop when the environmental
DB>temperature drops as the earth's surface cools at night. The
DB>entropy of each of these organisms drops with their body
DB>temperature.

<Bonk> (sound of palm slapping forehead)

Got me. Thanks for the reality check, David.

Wesley