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On 2007-09-17 23:02:14 +0100, "Doctor Drivel" said:


"Peter Parry" wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 Sep 07 19:06:17 GMT, (dmc) wrote:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=19 65

Seems

to be about 5 years too late as a story.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/18/ncell18.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/05/18/ixhome.html

No.

It is now out of the lab and now ready for production. At £1,500 to
£2,000 initially, it is the price of a quality gas boiler. And will
cost half of what? Of what electricity cost to heat the house? If half
of what gas is then this is a breakthrough. Then if a gas powered
Stirling unit is used to generate the electricity, then maybe even
cheaper to run, like 1/8 to 1/4 of current gas costs.

There's one born every minute.

They claim 200% out. So a 3kW heater will give 9kW out. About the same
as gas to run.

Let's see if there's a money back guarantee.....

Or part and service backup with friendly staff and music while you wait
on the phone.

It was on breakfast TV an the man held it up. Richard & Judy next!


If you get 200% more energy out than you put in, then all you have to do
is connect the output to the input and all your energy is free.

But it creates "heat" from electricity. The heat would nee to be changed
into another energy state - electricity, which runs it. That may be
possible via an efficient Stirling engine, however they are only running at
50% efficiency.