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New Heat Pump Will Last 10,000 Years 191

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 28, 2011 @04:25PM from the maytag-man-will-be-dust dept.

formaggio writes "Most heat pumps maintain an average useful life of 10-20 years, but researchers at the University of Stavanger in Norway (USN) and the University of Oslo believe that they have developed a new heat pump that will last up to 10,000 years."

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Is the warranty transferable? (Score:5, Funny)

by NotQuiteReal ( 608241 ) writes: on Thursday April 28, 2011 @04:29PM (#35968250) Journal

They guy at Best Buy will still try to sell you the extended warranty too!

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Re:Maxwell's Demon (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday April 28, 2011 @04:54PM (#35968644)

I was going to suggest that we let it eat Slashdot posts, but...

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Re:Up to 10,000 years (Score:4, Funny)

by Intrepid imaginaut ( 1970940 ) writes: on Thursday April 28, 2011 @04:57PM (#35968698)

Technically everything will last forever, it just changes state a lot over that period. :p

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Re:Poor estimation (Score:3, Funny)

by phayes ( 202222 ) writes: on Thursday April 28, 2011 @05:04PM (#35968820) Homepage

Why go ruin a superficial anti-military rant with facts?

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Re:heat pump? (Score:5, Funny)

by tnk1 ( 899206 ) writes: on Thursday April 28, 2011 @05:16PM (#35968982)

As I recall, there's a well known Jaguar advert where a pretty lady uses a stocking as an impromptu fan belt*.
*I forget what the american term is.

*It's "fan belt", but without the extra 'u'.

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