Anon questions the magic box

To be fair, the physics that makes refrigeration work does feel like you're manipulating primal forces like a wizard

Do not upset Maxwell's demon when you're down there sorting the cold atoms from the hot ones!
- Did Maxwell contribute to thermodynamics?
Who needs magical thinking when you have thermodynamics?
Material phase changes are like a cheat code for humanity. Reusable chemical handwarmers are also black magic. You just click a metal plate inside and all of a sudden it's a hot solid.

NightHawkInLight made a video showing how you can mix two different salts together and it'll create a packet that stays at 65 degrees for hours.

Video in question

There's a tank of cold inside. Its the primary export of northern European countries and sustains nearly their entire economies since the only other thing they can "make" is fucking rotten fish. Its important to recycle your AC every 3 years before it runs out of cold by throwing it into the ocean where it can return to be made into glaciers.

Well, because you didn't add a /s to your comment, some day it will end up as an answer spewed out by some LLM, as absolutely factual.
- I see no downsides
- Do LLMs ignore the /s even?
This anti-swedish sentiment makes you look like a Dane.
- That's impossible. Everyone knows that Danes can't communicate.
Weirdly this is basically how refrigerators worked before refrigeration was invented.
- But instead of throwing out the refrigerator, you'd just add more cold to it.

Turn it around to cool the outside. Global warning solved.

Actually a more efficient electric heater. This is known as an heat pump, aka reverse AC
Seriously, that would have to work better than those giant fans they're building offshore.
- Ooh, I've always wondered what those were for. Makes sense.

this video from 'technology connections' explains it quite well ^^

https://youtu.be/_-mBeYC2KGc

I love how mad he gets at single duct in room units too. Rightfully so.

Through the magic of the latent heat of vaporization

i feel technologically connected right now
- ♫ thermodynamically smooth jazz ♫

Heat pumps really are amazing tech. What if I tell you that this is also how your fridge works. Crazy, right?

They are also one of the few things that are more than 100% energy efficient.

300% to be exact. Because it uses some natural phenomena that just needs a little jump start and then can be maintained with little energy for massive air movement.
- Some are as high as 510% efficient
- The vapor compression cycle isn't exactly natural, and the compressor still needs a bunch of energy to keep going once it's started.
- Ah... energy doesn't work that way. You can't have a perpetually endless cycle with 100% efficiency in real world.
- Yup. I'm hoping my AC and furnace die around the same time so I can just replace both with a heat pump. Not sure if it'll save much on heating prices since both nat gas and electricity are pretty cheap in my area, but it can hopefully make maintenance simpler.

it adds heat to the system to make more cold. duh. global warming solved. stupid enviromentards.

So, if we all turned up the heat also during summer, the climate would cool down! Genius! Just don't go inside.
- No yah dummy. Put the Room in the middle of the Earth and PUMP all the outside heat into the planet core!
  
  BAM! Instant Arctic Weather in the middle of summer !
  
  And BAM! Reverse it for the winter!
  
  BAM! Mild Temps all Year round!
  
  You can thank me later EnvironMentaLists!

Shove the hot out the window. *taps head

Oh boy have i got a video you you anon!

https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto

It has an entire section at the start explaining how these magic cold boxes work to help with understanding their next evolution heatpump

"all of the sudden"

Disregard

In ye ole Enlysch, it was

“All of ye sudden”

For some raisin, “all of the sudden” just tastes better to me.

Technically “all of a sudden” is more correct.
All of some sudden?
- Some of the sudden.*

ICP frequenting 4chan?

Wait until he finds out about refrigerators.

phase change refrigerant loops baby!

Technically it's a uni directional heat pump. But we're just abusing the basic laws of thermodynamics. Fluids when compressed, heat up, and when expanded, cool down. Compress it, it heats up, cool it down, and then expand it, and suddenly, boom sub ambient cooling has been achieved. (the phase change happens in between to maximize effectiveness/efficiency)