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This is not really a downvote-worthy post, I upvoted it. You are right to sound your BS alarm, but as others have described, heat pumps are 100%+ efficient by c
by icelancer 4y ago
This is not really a downvote-worthy post, I upvoted it. You are right to sound your BS alarm, but as others have described, heat pumps are 100%+ efficient by cheating. So, not really, but also, yeah they are.
- nsteel 4y agoIf there was a massive alarm going off in my head and I was already at my computer, I'd probably take 2 mins to Google "how does a heat pump work". But I appreciate not everyone thinks like that.
- dagss 4y agoHeatpumps are an extremely widely deployed technology by now (I have one in my house, so have everyone I know); this is an article about inventions in heat pump space, and the post is sceptical about the concept of heat pumps. Kind of like a post about a new kind of airplane getting a comment saying that the concept of flying makes their BS alarm go off. Yes, flying is a bit "magic" and seems to defy the laws of gravity....
- 8note 4y agoIt's a misunderstanding of energy conservation. It's not cheating if you count all the energy in the system.