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It 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
by benlumen 5y ago
It 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.