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LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100%

Posted by Soulskill on from the that-makes-things-easy dept.

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?"

2 of 502 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why don't you just read the fucking article? I know its slashdot and everything, and nobody reads the damn articles, etc. You could at least give a try before spouting off with your reasons why it can't be so.

    Fucking idiots.

  2. Re:The second law of thermodynamics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is getting the energy it needs from it's environment.

    Is that the same way that your pronouns pull in excess apostrophes?

    This would be taking energy from the environment and shedding entropy to the environment and not neccessarily viloating any laws.

    ...except those of spelling.