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I don't see why people are downvoting you, as you are basically wanting to avoid wasting good energy with air conditioning. Maybe people thought your tone was
by elzbardico 5y ago
I don't see why people are downvoting you, as you are basically wanting to avoid wasting good energy with air conditioning.
Maybe people thought your tone was blasfemous?
- bernulli 5y agoPeople are downvoting because billpg essentially wants a perpetuum mobile, something that creates useable energy just from the presence of a high temperature reservoir. This violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Heat does not equal usable energy, what you need to extract something useful is a temperature difference.
- billpg 5y agoI don't care if the energy is useful, I just want it gone.
- Ajedi32 5y agoBecause what GP is proposing is thermodynamically impossible. The second law of thermodynamics states that heat naturally flows from hotter to colder regions. You can't just magically convert a static pool of heat to light and beam it somewhere else with no energy input. It's like suggesting that we generate electricity by rolling stones uphill; it just doesn't make sense.
- billpg 5y agoI don't know about blasphemy. My intended tone was "telling a joke". I know what I proposed would require our understanding of thermodynamics to be wrong, but this is in response to an article about a material that converts heat into electricity. I would love to hook up this material to a lightbulb in my window and save money!
- foobarian 5y agoI did get your snark but also half-thought that you were alluding to covering the house in solar panels. Which would, in an indirect way, remove the heat from your house and convert it to electricity :)