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- Path: sparky!uunet!watson.ibm.com
- From: jbs@watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <19930128.190229.500@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 21:35:59 EST
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: what about heat pumps?
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- People in this group seem to be assuming that if a cold fusion
- experiment appears to yield 1+x units of heat energy out for every 1 unit
- of electrical energy in, the experiment is a success. This bothers me
- since a heat pump can do this. I have a couple of questions:
- 1. While I don't really believe that CF experiments are pro-
- ducing heat by sucking it out of the environment, how is this possibilty
- absolutely excluded?
- 2. Is it not the case, that unless a CF device has a gain
- (value of x) better than that of a perfect heat pump, it will be use-
- less for generating electricity or powering machinery (or for anything
- except generating heat)? How many of the 'positive' experiments report
- such gains?
- James B. Shearer
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