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The energy that is radiated/convected away from your return channel never makes it back to your boiler.
by varjag 5y ago
The energy that is radiated/convected away from your return channel never makes it back to your boiler.
- OJFord 5y agoBut if take it away, cooling the pipe, more will make it out of the water and into the pipe (and so not back to the boiler). That's no different to turning up your radiator.
- benlumen 5y agoIt still should radiate into the house, helping to bring the temperature up to the thermostat point. If you're capturing any of that heat and converting it for any reason, your boiler's simply going to have to work harder to do its job. It's the first law of thermodynamics, isn't it? I'm not a physicist.
- cma 5y agoBut if you have a heatpump instead of boiler it maybe doesn't have to work as much harder.
- Firadeoclus 5y agoIt depends on what the converted energy is used for. If you use it to power a device in the house then it's quite likely most of that energy will end up as heat in the house again.