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The liquid-sorbent cousin of adsorption: a thermally-driven cycle using a liquid absorbent (lithium bromide/water for air conditioning, ammonia/water for refrigeration) and a small…
Vapor-compression refrigeration is the dominant cooling cycle and the electricity-paid, high-COP baseline against which every heat-driven alternative in this KB is measured. The 20…
The one-letter difference that trips everyone up. Adsorption (with a D) is a SURFACE phenomenon — molecules are enriched at an interface, outside the solid structure. Absorption (w…
Geometric blackness is the principle of trapping light with shape rather than pigment: angled cavities catch incoming light in repeated reflections so a surface absorbs almost ever…
Kleptothermy is a thermoregulatory strategy in which an animal harvests the metabolic heat produced by another organism — the literal 'joule heist' that gives this KB its name. Mec…
Thermophotovoltaics (TPV) converts heat directly into electricity: a hot emitter radiates a black-body spectrum onto bandgap-matched photovoltaic cells. It is the inverse of this K…
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