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Apparently, it's possible to cool surfaces below ambient air temperature by passive (no input of energy required) radiative cooling to harvest water from the atmosphere:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf3978
There's also a Nature paper about this effect, but behind a paywall:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13883
This looks like a textbook example of a device violating the zeroth law of thermodynamics, but apparently it's not. Why?
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf3978
There's also a Nature paper about this effect, but behind a paywall:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13883
This looks like a textbook example of a device violating the zeroth law of thermodynamics, but apparently it's not. Why?