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Ah that seems to explain it to me, if instead of presenting it as breaking some physics they should have said what actually makes it useful.

My understanding of it now is that since it can work at a higher temperature in an environment where the ambient temperature is low enough the latent heat can be passively radiated away. Even if using an active heat pump the higher temperatures would allow for a more efficient process. A closed system would eventually reach an equilibrium but there is no need to maintain a closed system.



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