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supersquirrel: “The betrayal of generations from the 20th century against the future quality of life of humanity will be remembered for thousands of years.” Also supersquirrel: “I am uninterested in comparing the moral qualities of generations. Humans are humans.”

Heywood Floyd? Shouldn’t it be rectangular and black?

Great article, especially where they don’t explain at all how the US government can block the acquisition of of a Dutch company.

Call me daddy Grimm.

Since about three years, there are wolves roaming in my area. I’m still fat.

Definitely not a heart.

You need to quit the bullshit yourself and learn to read. We were specifically discussing heat pumps for industrial heat use in the sub 250 degrees Celsius range, not keeping a house at a comfortable temperature. But good luck heating a home in the desert with a heat pump with the evaporator on a solar boiler.

Traditional Rankine cycles with a boiler, a turbine and a condenser have efficiencies lower than 40%, I’ve never seen one higher than 30%.

I really don’t get where those temperatures come from? I was referring to something like this. The higher the temperature difference between cold and warm side, to worse the COP gets. If you wanted to go from ambient to 200°C, the COP would drop lower than 1 and you’d be better off using an electric boiler.

Only with small temperature differences, the higher the difference the lower the COP.

Climate change huh?

He’s actually the bass player in a metal band.