Entropy

Just had one of those coffee break conversations.

We work in an office that is far too hot for much of the year due to the vast amount of electrical equipment hanging around. We have worked out that energy would not be a problem if heat energy could be easily converted into other forms with no concern for entropy.

Thus instead of installing air conditioning we would install devices that suck all the excess heat out of the air and use it to power our equipment, or even push it out on the national grid to heat somewhere which isn't as lucky with the weather.

This is what life is like as an engineer.