X-Message-Number: 3619
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:  (John de Rivaz)
Subject: Re: cooling
References: <3ecvfh$>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 07:46:19 +0000
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In article: <3ecvfh$>   (Perry E. Metzger) 
writes:
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> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 95 22:37:57 EST
> From:  (Perry E. Metzger)
> Subject: SCI.CRYONICS: yet more lunacy from J. Coetzee
> 
> Jan Coetzee yet again writes another indignant message about using
> peltier effect devices to flash freeze whole humans, and seems to
> believe that somehow the Peltier effect will let him avoid Newtons law
> of cooling.
> (remainder deleted)

The problem here is that people find the difference between cooling and 
heating difficult to understand. We can heat uniformly using RF heating 
(better than microwaves at getting deep into the object) but as far as 
I know there is no analagous process for cooling, ie one can't produce
a field that extracts kinetic energy from molecules in the same way RF 
can add to it. Cooling has to be via convection, conduction or 
radiation.

The only way I could speculate that a body could be rapidly cooled is 
using a nanotechnological system of heat pipes, but if one could do 
this one would probably have the technology to cure the body anyway.  

Sincerely,

John de Rivaz

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