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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: 116% Efficiency!!??
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.000522.19592@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 90 00:05:22 GMT
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In article <1770028@otter.hpl.hp.com> tgg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner) writes:
>|OK, Tom, taking as implied that the 1kW of electricity is the only source
>|of power for the machine in question, exactly how is this done?
>
>Hint: you almost certainly have one of these machine in your house, it's just
>that you don't use it in the "correct mode" to get >100% efficiency.
>
>Oh yes, the variant in question is available commercially.

Heat pump?  (Converting electricity to heat and also pumping heat in
from the outside?)