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SIR OLIVER LODGE's suggestion and mine in NATURE of November 25 are not contradictory, but rather complementary. Work done by the alternate evaporation and condensation of moisture implies a thermodynamic cycle. Both air and aqueous vapour must, I think, play the part of working substance.
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COTTER, J. The Energy of Cyclones. Nature 106, 438 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106438a0
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