Discuss Transferring heat to a wire will not generate electricity.

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Problem 15RQ: True or False: All heat pumps are practical anywhere in the United States. Explain your answer.
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Transferring heat to a wire will not generate electricity deal with natural constrain put forward by the second law of thermodynamics. 

While the electricity in a wire can produce heat but transferring the heat back to the wire cannot produce the electricity. It is a natural constraint of the second law of thermodynamics which tells there is a fixed direction of a spontaneous process and the quantity which determines it is entropy.

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