Powering Disney’s Frozen with a Carnot Refrigerator

Aaron Goldberg

Abstract


Frozen is Disney’s latest film, in which the character Elsa unleashes winter on her entire kingdom. This paper quantifies the amount of water frozen and the amount of work required by a Carnot refrigerator to do so, arriving at values of 5.49772788x10^12 moles and 5.8x10^15 Joules, respectively.


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Film; Physics; Thermodynamics; Frozen

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