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Originally Posted by Jeff Pahl
My opinion would be that if it is doing anything useful (providing cooling) then it is an illegal energy source, as the energy for creating the dry ice did not come from any of the allowed sources of energy that may be used on a robot, and the dry ice effectively becomes a stored energy device.
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Every material on the robot took energy to create, that does not mean they are contributing energy to the function of the robot. Wouldn't the sublimation of the dry ice be a net negative (consumer) process in terms of energy? How could it contribute stored energy to the robot?
Downsides: it's highly toxic and recognized as a carcinogen in CA. Upsides: Basically everything else - lethc [more] 
10-04-2013, 00:02
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