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The judge's notion that the saline solution acquiring heat from the defendant's cellar equates to production/transportation of energy seems wrong to me. Heat i
by branon 5y ago
The judge's notion that the saline solution acquiring heat from the defendant's cellar equates to production/transportation of energy seems wrong to me.
Heat is not a desirable form of energy in this context, it's either a waste product created by the cooling system, or a naturally occurring element that is counteracted by the saline solution.
Maybe the judge isn't technically wrong, he just got it backwards. The energy here is expended to eliminate heat, while creating it would be the opposite endeavor.
Is this the reason why?
- steve_g 5y agoA good way to think about it would be "useful" energy vs waste energy. The energy used by a chiller to cool a cellar is useful energy. The heat (energy) that is removed from the cellar and rejected to the atmosphere is waste energy. The defendant was stealing useful energy and returning waste energy.