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by xani__ 1339 days ago
Yup, and that is how ultrasonic heat pumps work!

JWST has one

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/cryocooler.h...

basically, make a standing wave of gas in a pipe and the peak of pressure will be hotter than the valley. Put the thing you want to cool in the valley, radiator in the peak, and voila, a heat pump.