-----Original Message----- From: Akira Shirakawa A couple more photos from the latest blogpost there:
Short link: http://goo.gl/x50lj Well, the pessimists amongst us will opine that this is looking worse and worse as an decent energy solution, especially compared to solar or wind. Most troubling, it is not living up to the "guaranteed" COP >8 at least not in this testing. Funny how Matts glosses over that fact. Why can they not get a decent engineer involved ? The device is drawing 800 watts electrical and producing 2.5 kW heat with an investment of $5000 and a lifetime before refueling of 5000 hours. This makes the cost of low grade heat about triple the cost of solar electricity (or much more), if you extrapolate everything according to the guarantee. Jones
