Researchers Develop a Heat Pump That Can Last 10,000 Years
Found on Inhabitat on Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Most heat pumps maintain an average useful life of 10-20 years, but researchers at the University of Stavanger in Norway (USN) and the University of Oslo believe that they have developed a new heat pump that will last up to 10,000 years.
Currently, existing heat pumps start to deteriorate after the first year of use, and require frequent inspection thereafter until the pump completely fails.
In other news, CD-R's are supposed to last hundreds of years. I don't want to belittle their research, but claims like this should be taken with a grain of salt.