Sympathetic Vibratory Physics

Thermodynamic heat pump cycles or refrigeration cycles are the conceptual and mathematical models for heat pumps and refrigerators. A heat pump is a machine or device that moves heat from one location (the 'source') at a lower temperature to another location (the 'sink' or 'heat sink') at a higher temperature using mechanical work or a high-temperature heat source. Thus a heat pump may be thought of as a "heater" if the objective is to warm the heat sink (as when warming the inside of a home on a cold day), or a "refrigerator" if the objective is to cool the heat source (as in the normal operation of a freezer). In either case, the operating principles are identical. Heat is moved from a cold place to a warm place.

Vapor-compression cycle
Vapor absorption cycle
Gas cycle
Stirling engine, Stirling Engine
Comparison with combined heat and power (CHP), Heat Engine, Cycle of Temperature
Reversed Carnot cycle

"Precisely analogous to a heat pump's operation - which as is well-known can readily be "over-unity" in its efficiency. The maximum efficiency of the heat pump is about 8.22. E.g., see David Halliday and Robert Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics, 3rd Edition Extended, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1988, Volume 1, p. 510-519. Good heat pumps normally have about 4.0 efficiency." [Bearden, The Final Secret of Free Energy]

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Heat pump and refrigeration cycle