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Heat pumps can provide an “efficiency” of some 300-400%+. The “trick” is that they use electricity to move heat instead of creating heat, which is why heat pump
by vGPU 3y ago
Heat pumps can provide an “efficiency” of some 300-400%+. The “trick” is that they use electricity to move heat instead of creating heat, which is why heat pumps stop working well under a certain temperature.
They kinda work like a reverse refrigerator. A fridge takes heat out from the inside and moves it to the outside. A heat pump does the opposite.
- stephen_g 3y agoYou’ve completely failed to answer their actual question, it was the claim of less than 100% efficient heating they were asking about…
- vGPU 3y agoNo. He was replying to this post: > Actual heating systems can be better than 100% efficient, while crypto mining or cinebench or whatever is <100%. The intricacies of why a crypto minor is less than 100% efficient when working as a heater are easily deduced, unless you’re precisely the sort of midwit that likes to leave replies such as the one you left.