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March 7, 2012

230% efficient LEDs seem to violate first law of thermodynamics

by Laura Domela

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Physicists hellbent on destroying the universe have come up with a tiny LED that produces 69 picowatts of light while using just 30 picowatts of power. That’s an efficiency of above 100%, which should be impossible, but isn’t. And in other breaking news, up is down, black is white, and zebras look the same.
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