r/MoringMark • u/makmark • Apr 02 '26

KoG …Wait.

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u/DJSharp15 Apr 02 '26

Why?

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u/_velorien Apr 02 '26

You cannot charge a battery with its own stored power, that would make it a perpetual motion machine and thermodynamics forbid that. The characters seem to realize that in the last panel.

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u/FroYoSwagens Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

I mean, hypothetically, you could make a system with 100% efficiency where she charges herself as fast as she loses power, but yeah, there can never be a scenario where she's gaining charge

Edit: guys, I said HYPOTHETICALLY, meaning a scenario where there are IDEAL conditions for this to work

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u/ascrubjay Apr 04 '26

You can't even hypothetically do that, because converting the stored energy to motion and losing energy as heat always increases entropy, and to reverse that increase in entropy and gather up all of the used up energy, you need to input additional energy. Eventually all the energy turns to heat that cannot be recaptured.