Imagine you are heating your home with a heat pump that uses a small amount of work to transfer heat from the cold outside air to the warm inside air. Your friend suggests that you set up a second heat engine using the air inside the house as the hot region and the outside air as the cold region to provide the necessary work to drive the heat pump. Which law or laws of thermodynamics does this money-saving scheme violate?
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