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It's probably financially ok if you run it in winter when you have to heat your home.
by Rexxar 6y ago
It's probably financially ok if you run it in winter when you have to heat your home.
- Nextgrid 6y agoIf you're heating using electricity then it's financially equivalent. It's actually beneficial to be able to use that energy for an additional purpose (mine crypto or this) than to just burn it.
- lgessler 6y agoThat depends on what you mean by electricity--heat pumps can achieve >100% efficiency since they move around heat instead of creating it.
- saalweachter 6y agoI believe with heat pumps (at least ground sourced heat pumps) you can get something like 3-5 units of heat per unit of electricity. (Compared to 11-15 EERs for cooling.)
- osamagirl69 6y agoEfficiency of heat pumps are roughly the same for heating and cooling (the only difference is which side you measure from -- the hot side gets the electrical power input counted in its power). The reason EER is so high is that they used absurd units for the heat flow (BTU/h = 0.3W) so you need to divide EER by 3.4 to get the actual efficiency in unit per unit.
- elil17 6y agoMost people don't have heat pumps