From: Jeffrey Schwartz
>
> _Very_ interesting article with respect to Traveller TL11+ heat
> sinking.

It's useless for heat sinks, we already assume Traveller heat management is close to the Carnot limits.
>
> If you've got the ability to make room temp superconductors, I can see
> them developing highly super-magnetocaloric materials.
> You'd let the material heat up (ie, lots of molecular motion) and then
> push electric current through it, and lock the molecules in place, thus
> making heat "stop"

This has no real advantage over just pushing meat into the material and *not* using an electric current, either way the heat is stored.