RE: Re: OT: Anybody got a heat pump

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Surely...

> > Almost correct Mark
> >
> > >>As you may also remember, if you compress a fluid, it
becomes
> > >>denser,
> > and therefore hotter.
> >
> > You can't compress a fluid (ask anyone who's driven their
> car through
> > a deep puddle and sucked in water only to find their
> > pissed'n'broke!!!).
>
> Ahem...
>
> The term "fluid" does NOT mean "liquid".
>
> The term "fluid" means (and I quote) "A continuous,
amorphous
> substance whose molecules move freely past one another and
> that has the tendency to assume the shape of its container."
>
> The word "fluid" means either a liquid or a gas....
>
> Given that, as you say, it spends part of the cycle as a gas,
> and part of the cycle as a liquid, I used the word "fluid"
to
> mean, well "fluid".
>
> I'll concede that I was using the word "suddenly" a bit
> loosely though :-)
>

... would have done rather than including the whole post?

Phil