A heat pump is a *pump*. It moves heat from one place to another, at an energy cost. It does not create heat. It is not an "over-unity device."
Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Wes Moore wrote: > This is not more astounding than the heat pump that heats my home. It is > giving me a COP of 5. This is documented by ASHRAE tech data that comes > with the unit. I have verified it with my amp meter. Heat pumps are > recognized to be over unity devices but it seems they have not been > criticized possibly because there is no obvious way to translate this energy > back to electricity. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
