From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 21:22:29 MDT
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber writes:
> Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > I was charmed by this black hole idea, which I haven't seen before in quite
> > that form.
>
> I don't think it will work.
> ...
> I don't think there's anything that keeps a black hole from serving
> as an entropy sink, per se. However, you can't "beam" waste heat,
> so actually dumping it into the sink is a problem.
If you think of a black hole as being really, really cold, then maybe
you could use it as part of a refrigeration system. Run a fluid through
your shell and then into a radiator which is close to the black hole,
so that the fluid circulates near enough to the hole that it radiates
its excess heat and approaches the hole's temperature.
Hal
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