Re: 116% Efficiency!!??

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From: Tom Gardner
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 10:21

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Don't forget, you can have machines that you supply with, say, 1kW of
electricity and which put >1kW of heat into your room. The _useful_
efficiency is thus >100%.




















N.B. no, this is in no way a perpetual motion machine, and it does not break 
any of the laws of thermodynmaics.

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