8:54 AM Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> For many years they have claimed modest COP but nothing commercializable > > Can they now demonstrate net real gain? > Any gain is real, even 0.1%. Perhaps you mean "significant gain" or "gain enough for practical or economic use." I think Steve Krivit and some others say that a gain has to be 1 or above or it does not count. Unless you get out 2 W for every 1 W of input, it isn't a "gain" by their standards. Some people call the gain the "COP," but I think that is technically inaccurate. That means "coefficient of production." As far as I know it only applies to heat pumps. They do not create any energy, as I am sure everyone here understands.
