Which limitation arises when a refrigerator approaches Carnot efficiency?

💡 Explanation

Reaching Carnot efficiency requires infinitely slow, reversible processes. Heat transfer through a finite temperature difference inherently involves irreversibility; therefore, approaching ideal Carnot efficiency requires an increasingly large (approaching infinity) heat transfer area and/or cycle time, rather than material failures.

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