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by flavius29663 1774 days ago
Why? You could theoretically take out energy from the room in the form of electricity
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You can’t. The second law of thermodynamics prohibits it.

“It is impossible to devise a cyclically operating device, the sole effect of which is to absorb energy in the form of heat from a single thermal reservoir and to deliver an equivalent amount of work.”

How does having a hot side of a piece of material and a cold side of a piece of material come under "cyclically operating"?
Perhaps not an equivalent amount of work, but if we could capture some of the waste....