Hacker News with Generative AI: Heat

Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat (2012) (nasa.gov)
Only about 25 percent of the energy in every gallon of gasoline you buy actually helps your vehicle to run. The rest is converted to heat, which is radiated uselessly off of your engine or blown out of your exhaust pipe.
Physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof (quantamagazine.org)
Sunlight melts snowflakes. Fire turns logs into soot and smoke. A hot oven will make a magnet lose its pull. Physicists know from countless examples that if you crank the temperature high enough, structures and patterns break down.
How to stay cool in extreme heat without air conditioning (text.npr.org)
Ban of heat protections for outdoor workers could create 'public health crisis' (wusf.org)