uhm... a fridge is a heat pump that takes heat from the inside and moves it outside. so wrapping this around your fridge (back of the fridge in particular) will give you a really _hot_ kitchen, and a really really cold fridge (given no hardware failure). The body of the fridge would do a decent job of insulating the outside from the inside, the conductor will just help the heat pump.
For somebody lambasting posters for not having a good grasp of heat transfer, you sure didn't spend much time thinking about it.
Not to nitpick (ok, to nitpick) but they were using cloroform, not coffee, as the material for the quantum computer. They were using about a coffee-cup's worth of cloroform. Its been a while since I read the paper, but iirc they used statistical sampling to simulate "ideal" qbits, and it just turned out that cloroform worked perfectly for this (something to do with the ratios of spins, I don't remember).
Anyway, just another "I read about this somewhere" reply to an "I heard about this stuff somewhere" post, off-topic to boot. =)
I have to second this book, it is a great reference. Also, note that a new edition (1999) of it is available at Amazon.com, just search for "SQL Instant Reference". I haven't seen the new edition yet, so I can't comment on any changes.
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uhm... a fridge is a heat pump that takes heat from the inside and moves it outside. so wrapping this around your fridge (back of the fridge in particular) will give you a really _hot_ kitchen, and a really really cold fridge (given no hardware failure). The body of the fridge would do a decent job of insulating the outside from the inside, the conductor will just help the heat pump.
For somebody lambasting posters for not having a good grasp of heat transfer, you sure didn't spend much time thinking about it.
Not to nitpick (ok, to nitpick) but they were using cloroform, not coffee, as the material for the quantum computer. They were using about a coffee-cup's worth of cloroform. Its been a while since I read the paper, but iirc they used statistical sampling to simulate "ideal" qbits, and it just turned out that cloroform worked perfectly for this (something to do with the ratios of spins, I don't remember).
Anyway, just another "I read about this somewhere" reply to an "I heard about this stuff somewhere" post, off-topic to boot. =)
I have to second this book, it is a great reference. Also, note that a new edition (1999) of it is available at Amazon.com, just search for "SQL Instant Reference". I haven't seen the new edition yet, so I can't comment on any changes.
Cheers,
Shaar