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echo: homepowr
to: JIM DUNMYER
from: CRAIG HEALY
date: 1997-08-20 08:29:00
subject: SMALL GENERATORS

-> > -> runs nearly 130% efficient during the heating cycle.
-> >
-> > I saw that!  Pretty soon they'll be getting that perpetual motion
-> > machine ;)
->
-> Craig,
-> I assume that you're being facetious and realize that a heat pump
-> truly CAN run at well over 100% efficiency. They yield more heat
-> BTUs output than the heat value of the fuel that's consumed.
Of course!  And it was only slightly tongue in cheek on that. The
trouble with heat pumps is their inability to deal with cold climates.
Otherwise they'd be a lot more common here in the rust/snow belt.
It may well be that a different exchange medium than a freon will
make that possible.  I would certainly like to have something other
than that fuel-oil-eating beast in the basement!
-c-
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