[Info-vax] HoffmanLabs down?

[koehler at scotty.koehler.athome.net]

In article <00A84666.9EC3BCA6 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> In article <Qsf3l.4969$U5.37661 at newsb.telia.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>SMS wrote:
>>
>>And heat pumps are 200-300 % efficent. Isn't that more then 100% ?
> 
> Maybe in *your* universe but in the the universe I live in, >100% would
> violate a few laws of physics and thermodynamics.

   They don't make more energy than the eletrical energy use, but 
   they do move more energy than the electrical energy use.  
   Electrical resistance heat puts out less than 100% of the energy 
   it consumes electrically.  Heat pumps put out more than 100% of 
   the energy it consumes electrically.

   And nobody charges you for the energy that a heat pump sucks out
   of "cold" air.