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I think it is best to let the better informed members of this forum destroy this idea before we begin to design the system.carmana":37fdiabh said:Origin, what about if one end of the thermercouple was outside the houe at -20 the otherend inside the house at +20c
""radioactive materials do heat up during radioactive decay but cooling them down would only slow down the decay rate resulting in less heat being generated.""Shpaget":gls7mpg2 said:Matter (metal or not) won't get warmer because you cool it down.
Some other source of energy must be present.
However, radioactive materials do heat up during radioactive decay but cooling them down would only slow down the decay rate resulting in less heat being generated.
There is a possibility that some material undergoes a chemical reaction when it comes into contact with some other substance, but not because it is cooled down.
Yeah, that is absolutely correct (at least for the temperatures in some reasonably attainable ranges).undidly":283w44fn said:The decay rate does not slow down.