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If I put an infrared antenna, hooked up to a battery, inside an ideal, perfectly-insulated black body, would it generate power and reduce the temperate inside due to IR radiation being absorbed? (If so, why doesn't that violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics?)

by /u/General_Urist in /r/askscience

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