Online dictionaries and Wikipedia don't even have an entry for the word:
overunity. They merely redirect to their definition of perpetual motion which is not at all relevant. It implies that the term does not exist except in terms of
perpetual motionwhich it defines in terms of
no input of energy from an external source. This is not the definition of overunity.
Overunity is synonymous with a coefficience of performance
greater than one indicating that more energy exited the system than was
used to operate it. This does not mean making something from nothing.
Heat pumps are conventional examples using only a fraction of
electricity to power them while transporting a much larger thermal
energy gathered from the sun.
This is not to be confused with efficiency since a heat pump may be less
than 100% efficient (and usually is), yet still manages to deliver more
solar energy than the electricity used to transport that energy to the
user. This is overunity and the benefit of not abusing each other with
the misuse of our language.
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