From: Jeffrey Schwartz > > _Very_ interesting article with respect to Traveller TL11+ heat > sinking. It's useless for heat sinks, we already assume Traveller heat management is close to the Carnot limits. > > If you've got the ability to make room temp superconductors, I can see > them developing highly super-magnetocaloric materials. > You'd let the material heat up (ie, lots of molecular motion) and then > push electric current through it, and lock the molecules in place, thus > making heat "stop" This has no real advantage over just pushing meat into the material and *not* using an electric current, either way the heat is stored.