[TXnMA]

"Apparently the beams can put energy into an area or draw energy out creating a cold spot."

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Somebody better go back and review basic thermodynamics (or 7th grade General Science).

Just as it is nonsensical to claim to "push cold into" something, it is just as asinine to talk of using an energy beam to "pull heat out".

That's even more nonsensical than the ubiquitous science fiction "tractor beam"!

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[TXnMA]

To be scrupulously honest, there IS a phenomenon known as "Laser Cooling" -- the most common form of which is Doppler Cooling".

However, it is constrained to operating on minuscule quantities of atoms of a single, specific element -- near absolute zero temperature. The laser(s') frequency must be tuned to just below a specific electron transition level.

Basically, the velocity of an atom traveling away from the laser is not reduced -- but the velocity of an atom moving toward the laser is reduced by a tiny amount. Thus, since temperature is a function of atomic/molecular velocity, the "slowed" atom is "cooled" slightly.

Practically, the effect does not work at the molecular level, so my original proscription on removing heat via an energy beam still holds -- "in the real world"...

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Just keepin' it honest... '-)

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