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If you measure the efficiency of heat output relative to the electrical input power, then yes. The trick is that there's actually another input: latent heat in
by nicoburns 4y ago
If you measure the efficiency of heat output relative to the electrical input power, then yes. The trick is that there's actually another input: latent heat in the environment. But given that this is abundant and freely available we don't usually bother to include that in our calculations.