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Comment by bob1029

9 months ago

Heat pumps could dramatically impact performance by increasing the temperature of the radiators. The hotter they are, the more power they can dissipate per unit time & area.

Doubling the radiator temperature would give you 16x more radiated power.

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dzhiurgis  9 months ago

And you can stack them. I.E. you can stack peltier devices to get -250C in your bedroom.

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