LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100%

New submitter Paul Fernhout writes "Physicists from MIT claim to have demonstrated that an LED can emit more optical power than the electrical power it consumes. Researchers suggest this LED acts like a heat pump somehow (abstract). Is it true that 230% efficient LEDs seem to violate first law of thermodynamics?"

Comments

They must have used the wrong cable

[s_p_oneil]

They must have used the wrong cable, causing the light to go faster than C and mess with their readings.

Re:They must have used the wrong cable

[royallthefourth]

Ah! Monster cables are good for something after all.

Re:They must have used the wrong cable

[Alter_3d]

They must have used the wrong cable, causing the light to go faster than C and mess with their readings.

It was obviously a Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable

Re:They must have used the wrong cable

[ColdWetDog]

I thought you had to reverse the tachyon polarity.

Now I'm all confused.

Re:They must have used the wrong cable

[JWW]

Thats too true.

Where C = Cost.

Re:They must have used the wrong cable

[pablomme]

Nothing can go faster than C. Except Fortran, of course.

Obligatory Simpsons Quote

[Jason Levine]

"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

Re:Maybe

[Anonymous Coward]

HOLY SHIT ITS A ZPM!!!!

There is some confusion here

[circletimessquare]

as most people think Light Emitting Diode when they hear LED.

But in this experiment they are referring to a Large Entropic Dilemma.

So the results make perfect sense.

Re:No.

[Enderandrew]

Read the article? Heck, I didn't finish the headline. As soon as I realized it didn't mention iPads I went straight to the comments to argue we should instead discuss iPads.

Why don't we have iPad 4 speculation yet?

1. I for one welcome our new iPad 4 overlords and their app that allows you to put hot grits on Natalie Portman and disguise it in a bad car analogy.
2. Ask if it runs Linux, and then cite another failed year of Linux on the desktop.
3. ???
4. Profit.

What were we talking about again?

Re:No.

[Dynedain]

So if you had enough of these, you could air condition your house with them?
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In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they're not.

In theory.

Re:Maybe

[squidflakes]

So, you're saying that future computers, if we don't want to spring for fans or liquid cooling, will have to be lit up like a modder's case?

I guess that's great if you like your server rooms to also double as sweet rave parties.

Re:No

[P-niiice]

run it through the faster than light cables too

Re:Maybe

[squidflakes]

How the hell are you supposed to sleep in a server room like that?

Re:Maybe

[geekoid]

If I controlled all the energy, I would have all the power!

Re:Maybe

[SnarfQuest]

Did they check to see if their time servers are synced properly? Maybe the power is time-travelling from a previous test.

In THIS house...

[fyngyrz]

Will LED become next generation of cooling appliance?

"That's a bright idea, he said coldly."

Also, heat-activated lighting. Also, if you can suck heat from the environment to make light, and then pump the light to solar cells to make electricity, you have a heat-to-electric converter.

Maxwell's demon must be rolling over in his randomly displaced bed right about now.