On Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 3:56:17 AM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> onglet wrote:
> >John Kuthe wrote:
> >>Julie Bove wrote:
> >>>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>>>dsi1 wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> The Holy Father is also amenable to the countertop icemakers...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is for this very reason that I'm going to go out on a limb and predict
> >>>>> that countertop icemakers are going to be trending! Refrigerators are
> >>>>> going to get smaller but our need for ice will increase. These icemakers
> >>>>> are going to be HOT!!!
> >>>>
> >>>> If the icemaker get hot, won't the ice melt?
> >>>
> >>> How would it get hot?
> >>
> >> Room air is hot compared to ice! Physics, etc.
> >
> >Hard to make ice using room air....
>
> Actually it's easy... that's how refrigeration works, it removes heat
> from air.... cold is simply the absence of heat.

When a liquid changes to a gas, it absorbs heat. When a gas changes to a liquid, it releases heat. Refrigeration utilizes this principle of phase changes by using a compressor to convert a refrigerant gas to a liquid.