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I'm sorry, probably I was not able to ask question properly. I didn't want to suggest Perpetual Motion Machine. I wanted to ask - is it possible to determine which volt-ampere characteristics are allowed by 2nd law of thermodynamics and which are not?Vanadium 50 said:Again, you are discussing a heat engine. You extract work by having part of it at one temperature and part at another. The fact that the components are electrical and not mechanical is irrelevant.
Imagining one part kept at absolute zero, even implicitly, gets you a Perpetual Motion Machine. We do not discuss these here, but armies of people have tried to make them, and have them "almost work - as soon as I get this last part right."