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Introduction
Heat is a flow of energy with an associated entropy. But what does all of that mean? Entropy is the bad part of heat, right? How do we remove it (and ideally, without affecting that flow of energy)?


=The nitty gritty of it=
=The nitty gritty of it=

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Heat is a flow of energy with an associated entropy. But what does all of that mean? Entropy is the bad part of heat, right? How do we remove it (and ideally, without affecting that flow of energy)?

The nitty gritty of it

Latent heat

Phases and heat capacity

Waste heat

Heat transfer

Heat management

Heat exchangers

Heat pumps

Heat sinks

In atmosphere

Fans

Evaporative cooling

Thermoelectric cooling

In space

Radiators

Open cycle cooling

Additional reading

Additional references

Credit