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THE layman will answer: “ To make the room warmer”.The student of thermodynamics will perhaps so express it: "To import the lacking (inner, thermal) energy." If so, then the layman's answer is right, the scientist's wrong.
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EMDEN, R. Why do we have Winter Heating?. Nature 141, 908–909 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141908a0
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