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on https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/effizientere-waermepumpe-fraunhofer-forscher-arbeiten-an-neuem-konzept-dlf-60d50f31-100.html https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ef
by wolfi1 3y ago
on https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/effizientere-waermepumpe-fraunhofer-forscher-arbeiten-an-neuem-konzept-dlf-60d50f31-100.html https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/effizientere-waermepumpe-frau... is an interview with the lead scientist, Dr. Kilian Bartholomé. Summary: they claim a possible COP of 5-6, a lab implementation just now yields a temperature rise of 1K, it will take some years to find suitable materials.
[Sidenote: "ElKaWE" could be a pun, as its pronunciation is the same as "LKW", the german word for truck
- slow_typist 3y agoA COP of 5 is meaningless if you don‘t know the theoretically possible maximum COP in an application scenario. But thanks for the pointer, DLF interviews on scientific topics are usually quite good.