I could feel the heat coming off it when I stood next to the repaved section. They didn’t repave the parking area at the edge. Opened to traffic again, seems firm enough to drive on at 160⁰F.

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    15 hours ago

    So, where does that heat go?

    Last I checked, a fridge uses the outside air to cool the heat exchanger

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      11 hours ago

      Compressor heats up coolant, coolant exchanges heat with outside, cools down then evaporator cools it further, heat exchanges with cold loop then goes to be compressed again. It’s the same principle that freezers and ac use, with the phase changes of the coolant you force them to move thermal energy in the desired direction.