Joe,
Not sure, I would need to think hard on it and do some modeling but I
suspect there are several problems, one of which may be temperature
difference limits, i.e. the driving forces needed to move the heat
through your proposed system to reach those efficiencies. What is the
upper temperature
Joe Street wrote:
> Hey I just thought of something. If I used your heatpump and
> connected the output heat exchanger to a sterling motor generator set
> with an overall efficiency of lets say 50%, I could get 1.5 KW of
> electrical power from the 3 KW heat energy coming out of the
> heatpum
Hey I just thought of something. If I used your heatpump and connected
the output heat exchanger to a sterling motor generator set with an
overall efficiency of lets say 50%, I could get 1.5 KW of electrical
power from the 3 KW heat energy coming out of the heatpump. Since the
heatpump has a
Well Mike if you have been following the discussion, we've already
established that my country is the largest producer of hydroelectricity
and gets 70% of its needs from that renewable source. The heatpump CP
is cool for sure but if I wanted to pump heat from my roof to a storage
tank I would
Joe,
Your claim that Electric resistance heating converts nearly 100% of
the energy in the electricity to heat is right but:
I found the following at a US DOE site:
"Electric Resistance Heating:
Electric resistance heating converts nearly 100% of the energy in
the electricity to heat. However, m
