Archive - Electrotonic Letters

Energizing Below Our Maximum

Efficiency as Performance Enhancement

May 3 •

January 2024

No energy, or too much?

Jan 9 •

November 2023

The Dracula Series: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Horror and the Vampire as Late Victorian Energy Crisis (Part 3 of 3)

Part 3: “By road, by rail, by water” Or; The Logistics of Dracula

Nov 29, 2023 •

October 2023

The Dracula Series: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Horror and the Vampire as Late Victorian Energy Crisis (Part 2 of 3)

Part 2: “The Blood is the Life” Or; White Supremacist Fears of Racial Degeneration

Oct 31, 2023 •

The Dracula Series: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Horror and the Vampire as Late Victorian Energy Crisis (Part 1 of 3)

Part 1: “Unclean! Unclean!”’ Or; The Sensitive Brides of Dracula: Feeling, But Not Thinking, Machines

Oct 18, 2023 •

Maxwell’s Demon: A Tale of Two Entropies (Part 2 of 2)

So far in this series, we have discussed how Maxwell’s Demon emerged in 1867 as a thought experiment designed to reveal the statistical nature of the…

Oct 4, 2023 •

September 2023

Maxwell’s Demon: A Tale of Two Entropies (Part 1 of 2)

Even if you don’t know what it is, you have probably heard of “Maxwell’s Demon.”

Sep 27, 2023 •

The Trouble with Defining Energy

Sep 21, 2023 •

What Came First: Thermodynamics or the Steam Engine?

There is a short answer and a long answer to this question. The short answer is simple: the steam engine predates thermodynamics. But the long answer is…

Sep 20, 2023 •

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