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It is common knowledge that the temperature ofair rises as it is compressed. An inventor thought about using this high-temperature air to heat buildings. He used a compressor driven by an electric motor. The inventor claims that the compressed hot-air system is 25% more efficient than a resistance heating system that provides an equivalent amount of heating. This is a perpetual-motion machine of the____kind. first--second

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