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[-] maniel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah, not only microwave but heater in general... but reversed, i asked myself that question for a long time, i mean we pump an electricity into the wire and we get heat, why not reverse? why we can "magically" get heat from electrons but to get something cold we need to pump the heat elsewhere, like microwave basically make atoms vibrate generating heat, would be cool to be able to generate some field that makes atoms stop

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago

You cannot just destroy energy. When you "make atoms stop" the energy from atoms have to go somewhere.

Usually atoms radiate heat away.

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