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They have these wonderful devices nowadays. They're called "picnic coolers".

You might be thinking of Maxwell's Demon, but I kind of doubt it. It wouldn't work anyway. It turns out the waste heat generated by the work done by the demon in opening and shutting the gate more than offsets any possible cooling effect.

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