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Well, efficient is hardly the right phrase. When it comes to heating using electricity then 100% efficiency is on the low side. A heat pump could be many times
by contravariant 6y ago
Well, efficient is hardly the right phrase. When it comes to heating using electricity then 100% efficiency is on the low side. A heat pump could be many times more efficient.
- lalaland1125 6y agoI just also want to add that gas heating is also effectively >100% efficient relative to electricity because there are no losses incurred on the power generation side.
- a1369209993 6y agoThat depends on how you're making that gas. IIRC algae (the primary ingredient in most fossile fuels) are less than 10% efficient at converting sunlight into chemical energy after metabolic expenditures. (There's also the part where the sun is <<0.00001% efficent at turning fusion energy into sunlight-that-hits-earth, but that problem isn't specific to gas heating.)
- londons_explore 6y agoIt is sad that "heat" and "efficiency" are defined like this... "100% efficiency" should be the Carnot's theorem efficiency limit...