[time-nuts] Morion MV89A position

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <EE35746C5DA8418E928148E68A514B40 at pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:

>My question is, how does one design an enclosure to prevent this
>mistake?

You can actually get pretty far with basic heat-transport calculations
as long as you can find probable lambda-values for the material you
are using.

>With all this talk about thermal capacitance and resistance, perhaps
>what we need is a thermal diode; it lets heat out but prevents
>thermal fluctuations from getting in. A thermal Gore-Tex layer.

That would be a great thing, unfortunately pretty much everybody
agrees that Maxwells demon does not exist :-)

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