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The paper is grounded on the author's book '"Thermal Death" on the Earth andthe scenario how to prevent it' (Moscow, URSS, 2009, bibl.571). While consumingenergy, we finally practically all the produced energy is dissipated as heat.As the way of preventing the "thermal death" the author suggests that we shouldtransit to the thermocyclic power engineering based on using heat circulationand build "cold storage plants" which must collect the dissipated heat andtransform it into forms of energy necessary to mankind. As a rule thedissipated heat has low temperature gradients. For this reason the efficiencyof "cold storage plants" of the classic type (with coolers) is too small andtherefore they cannot be used as the basis of thermocyclic power engineering.This fact makes us consider the perpetual motion engines of the second kind.Having analyzed (excessively) numerous formulations of the Second Law ofthermodynamics, the author has concluded that the prohibition of these enginesis groundless. From the author's point of view this prohibition is aconsequence of the following mistakes made by the founders of Thermodynamics.1. Having in mind the concept of non-exterminable phlogiston, S. Carnot made aconclusion that the heat does not disappear but is only transferred from a warmbody to a cold one and therefore a cooler is necessary for any thermal engine.However, today we know that while heat is consumed, it does disappear as heatand converts into other forms of energy. Hence, Carnot's argumentation iswrong. 2.The Entropy Increase Law is wrongly reduced to the Thermal EntropyIncrease "Law" while in Nature the Total Entropy Increase Law works. Due togroundlessness of the Thermal Entropy Increase "Law", the thermal entropy candecrease and a compensation of converting thermal energy into mechanical workcan be non-thermal. Therefore a cooler is not necessary for a thermal engine.

Invalidity of prohibition of the perpetual motion engine of the second  kind and the scenario of using these engines for prevention of the "thermal  death" on the Earth