30 Aug
2001
30 Aug
'01
6:59 p.m.
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
see "Pelletier Effect" devices. Thermos made a portable ice-box, using that tech, for a while. It's all solid-state, no moving parts.
They are interesting, but what they are is merely heat pumps; you also need to carry the heat away with the flow of some material (eventualy to be pumped outside of the building). [Radiative cooling is not really applicable for the required rates of heat transfer; it'd require equipent to be hot way past the point of melting :)] --vadim