What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)

Thu Aug 30 22:59:23 UTC 2001

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