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  • Re: xkcd: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump

    From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 8 12:26:17 2025
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    In article <1022bvl$3c2me$[email protected]>,
    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
    xkcd: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump
    https://xkcd.com/3099/

    As a thermodynamics specialist, I love it ! However, if their
    insulation is real good then it won’t work.

    This makes perfect sense. I have long promoted a free-energy system where
    you run an extension cord to the neighbor's patio outlet and run your appliances off of it. But what makes my scheme unique and patentable is
    that the cord is green so it's not noticed in the grass.
    --scott

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 8 12:28:33 2025
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    Robert Carnegie <[email protected]> wrote:
    Referring to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_source_heat_pump>
    An "air to air heat pump" provides heating
    or cooling. In Scotland we mostly talk
    about home heating, but on a few days in
    a year, indoors is too hot. But I think
    the hear pumps we're offered are for heating
    only. But I do share a wall with the
    nearest neighbour...

    ObSF: The Snowmen by Fredrik Pohl

    --scott


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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 11 13:22:34 2025
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    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Over the years, some owners/renters have had cords of wood delivered.
    Most used an axe, but one used a chainsaw.

    It was after that started that strange bumps began appearing in our
    back yard and then moved to our front yard ... although, like the fall >mushrooms, I don't seem to have seen them in recent years.

    This sounds like the beginning of a Lovecraft story.
    -s-cott
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