How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future

Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities

By Chris Baraniuk

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future?mc_cid=75f79316aa&mc_eid=6eba43efbf

#energy #technology #heatpump #home #science #lordkelvin #kelvin

Oh the confusion!

S. P. Thompson wrote a biography of Thomson=Kelvin and then there is D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and electron discoverer J. J. Thomson. And thermodynamics' Count Rumford who was born Benjamin Thompson.

#Thomson #Thompson #Chemistry #Kelvin #LordKelvin #ChemToots #teaching #thermodynamics #pchem #PhysicalChemistry

#science #astrophysique

Pour paraphraser le discours de #LordKelvin prononcé il y a 120 ans: « il y a un ou deux petits nuages de rien du tout qui obscurcissent le ciel de la physique moderne. »

Un de ces petits nuages pourrait juste nécessiter d'envoyer Einstein et Bore rejoindre Galilée et Newton dans leur placard au musée des sciences. Une paille.

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-universe-expansion-dispute-physics.html