I recently scored a copy of Maxwell's Demon, a book containing a collection of (among others) Landauer and Bennett's papers. As I was skimming them, I couldn't help but think that if there is a correspondence between heat and information erasure, can that be used to move "heat" in a fundamentally different way?

The idea would be you do some computation at point A, the related information erasure at point B, and the heat associated with it get "transported" faster than it would be by moving pipes around. The hope is that sending the bits along something like an optical network would be faster than laminar fluid flow.

I'm sure HN's more knowledgeable folks will tell me exactly where I'm wrong, but it seemed like an intriguing possibility.