Quote from: bonker on August 08, 2011, 02:55:49 AM

With regards to the fridge, you got to understand that it ain't a closed system. There's energy being supplied by the
the power station outside right? That energy lost by cooling the fridge down, entropy is transferred out of the room by
the electrons. Seeing as y'all can't provide no robust refutation other than point to wikipedia etc I think we gonna
have to agree to disagree up in here.

I didn't bother looking, but either Wikipedia has got the tech completely wrong, or it's being misinterpreted.

If your willing to listen for a moment, I'm a licensed a/c tech, and a/c and fridges work on the same basic principals, with the exception that an a/c unit is designed to run nearly 100% duty cycle. Refrigerators and freezers however, are designed with 25-30% duty cycle in mind. If you try to use a refrigerator system to cool a PC (generating heat constantly) you will burn it out eventually. Window a/c units and similar can be converted to cool PC components, but specialized tools and equipment is required to perform the required modifications.

These systems remove the heat from one area, and need to dissipate them in another. A/c units use things like radiators on both ends, evaporator is where it gets cold, condenser is where it gets hot. Then they simply use air to transfer the heat either into the system or out of the system. The only electricity involved is to run the fans and refrigerant compressor. In fridges, the same principal applies, although the evaporator is smaller and inside the fridge, usually does not have a fan on it. The condenser is the black grid of tubing you see on the back of a fridge. That warms up, and the inside gets cold. No thermal energy ever leaves the room via the electrical wire. There's a bit more going on in the refrigerant system all dependent on the system pressure differences, but this is a reasonably easy to understand run down of the basics.

Even the use of a peltier cooler (ceramic, thermo-electric device) the electricity is used to facilitate transfer of heat from one side to the other, and in fact these devices create more heat than they are able to remove from the cool side.

Overclock.net forums have a number of great articles of people using refrigerant or peltier based cooling on PC's if your interested in learning more.
http://www.overclock.net/

I don't think anyone's trying to dump on your thread, it's just best if we try and prevent misinformation whenever possible.