My first statement is only correct if the putative cooler is an active cooling system. By that I mean it is behaving like the diode equivalent of a heat pump. A heat pump requires an external input of energy that is equal to or greater than the heat transferred out of the system. In this system the input energy is electrical and is less than the heat energy transferred out of the system so it qualifies as OU.
OTOH, if it is a passive cooling system, which simply cools by emitting radiation, it wouldn't qualify as OU. However, as David Roberson pointed out this cooling process differs from how an ideal black body is suppose to cool. Harry On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Harry Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > If it is a cooler, it appears to violate the first law. > If it is an energy converter, it appears to violate the second law. > > I guess the question is: what is it? > > > > Harry
