Sinabro

Call me a crack pot, but why does it sound like to me, that Hawking radiation is a way to get around the second law of thermodynamics?

This is the scenario I’m thinking of: if you have a moderately sized black hole, if Hawking radiation does exist, it will radiate its mass (hence energy) away in the form of that radiation. So, if we did have a black hole, we can, periodically drop a cold, room-temperature object (i.e. things with no more free energy) into that black hole, which, like furnace, will provide a high-temperature radiation. But unlike a furnace, this is a total mass-to-energy conversion.

This sounds too good to be true. What am I missing here?