In message <EE35746C5DA8418E928148E68A514B40@pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:
>My question is, how does one design an enclosure to prevent this >mistake? You can actually get pretty far with basic heat-transport calculations as long as you can find probable lambda-values for the material you are using. >With all this talk about thermal capacitance and resistance, perhaps >what we need is a thermal diode; it lets heat out but prevents >thermal fluctuations from getting in. A thermal Gore-Tex layer. That would be a great thing, unfortunately pretty much everybody agrees that Maxwells demon does not exist :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
