alt Hacker NewsAsking for a friend (who sucks at thermodynamics:) could you use a heat pump to cool down the cold end more and heat up the hot end much higher? Heat radiation works better the higher the temperature?
Asking for a friend (who sucks at thermodynamics:) could you use a heat pump to cool down the cold end more and heat up the hot end much higher? Heat radiation works better the higher the temperature?
Not sure about the effectiveness of a heat pump in this use case.
>Heat radiation works better the higher the temperature?
The power output is proportional to T^4 according to the Stefan-Boltzmann law.