[JAKraig]

I wish I could say I knew a lot about the chips, I don't. I do know a lot about air-conditioning and a lot about generating electricity.

Generating heat from electrical resistance is much more power hungry than moving heat by pumping it around using a compressor. I would think that at least theoretically it could be more efficient to move that heat around with electronic devices because you don't have to over come the frictional losses from the inside of the compressor and the belts. So far the most economical belt invented still dissipates 2% of the power it transfers and most belts consume 6-7% of the power transferred. Just losing the belts would be a big help. Considering all the internal friction of a compressor and the energy required to move the gas around makes me think there might be something to all of this, I certainly hope so.

[Zeppelin]

thats exactly what I was getting at; efficiency. good explanation, much better than mine.