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On 2011, Aug 29, , at 12:30, chuck britton wrote:
One possible way for a device to output more power than it takes in
would be for it to be extracting thermal E from its environment. ;-)
Oh!
bc thinks a coefficient of performance > 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_efficiency
bc
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