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Cooling with passive Peltier element
Public Domain by Chemicalinterest
| Scientists managed to use oscillations in temperature to use a passive Peltier element to cool a piece of copper from over 100C to below room temperature without the usage of energy. The transition looks like magic since it seems to contradict the second law of thermodynamics. It has potentially significant applications. |