I went through this a while back.
If we had 2 air tanks, say 1 full, 1 empty, connected together via hose to each tanks valve, valves closed, then we open the valves till the pressure levels out in the 2 tanks from the full one.
Now, if we were to measure the amount of energy that 1 full tank could provide to say an air driven motor from full till empty, and compared that to measuring the output of the air motor running on the 2 half full tanks, measuring the total for 1 tank and then the other and adding, do we get the same amount of energy from our air motor using the full tank till empty, and from the total of the 2 half empty tanks?
Did we lose half of the energy stored in the full tank, when we connected the empty tank to the full tank and leveled their pressures?
And when we level out the 2 tanks, is there a loss in the system because of heat produced by the transfer in the system?
That heat was lost back when the full tank was filled.
All we did was release pressure into a container that is twice the volume of the original pressured chamber. In fact, the tanks will reduce in temperature compared the when 1 was full and 1 was empty. After leveling, once the tanks sit half full for a while, they will come up to room temperature by absorbing heat from the environment. So we produced heat at one time in the system and lost it, and we took it back when the air pressure was released and expanded. Weird thought.
But we didnt lose half of the energy in releasing the full tank into the empty tank because of heat loss when we opened the valve. We lost it because we released a level of air pressure into a larger container(or caps
) without 'using' the energy transfer to power something till the tanks are equal levels. To me it adds up to a form of waste that doesnt transfer to another form. The pressure left in the 2 half full tanks is still pressure, we just chose a stupid way to dilute it.
So, are we really losing half the energy in the cap transfer, 'HALF' due to heat losses, because of resistance? Or are we just carelessly wasting energy by connecting a full cap to an empty cap, of the same values, till they have half the original voltage(pressure), by unleashing 'pressures' into larger containers, without using the energy in the transfer from one cap the the next.
If we had 2 large caps, 1 full and the other empty, and we put a light bulb in line, we would get light and heat, and the caps will still be half the original voltage, but we made use of the transfer. Or a motor. Or a JT. Lol, wouldnt you think that if we lost half in the cap to cap transfer, and we make use of all that energy transfer, and still have half the voltage left in each cap, that the loss we are talking about are not even real. If we add a light bulb to the system during transfer, which is a 'resistance', and producing a lot more heat compared to a very low resistance transfer, and we get light to boot, but we still get half the voltage in each cap when we are done!!!
Lol, we used a light bulb, a resistor, to obtain more energy output from the system to make use of an inherent loss in diluting a pressure.
Now, it is said, that if it were all supper conducting, that the caps will be more than half of the original voltage. But I dont know.
Like in a sim, if you dont add a resistance value to the caps or circuit, would we still get only 5v in each cap, from 1 with 10v? Or would it be more in each?
I would like to see it.
Mags