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The most efficient heater is a heat pump, and its not even close to heat generators.
by mathgradthrow 3y ago
The most efficient heater is a heat pump, and its not even close to heat generators.
- ravi-delia 3y agoSure, but if you're gonna have a space heater (and people do) there won't be any difference in efficiency between any possibility, including computers
- gpm 3y agoSure, but you should only be using space heaters and not heat pumps (or non-electric sources of heat) if you're using them infrequently, at which point the cost of silicon over resistive wire is not worth it.
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- monocasa 3y agoExactly. Heat pumps work by concentrating and moving heat, which is cheaper than generating it in the first place. There's still heat in 0°F weather if you concentrate it.
- isk517 3y agoI believe this was from a XKCD What If? question, it was asking how much would sticking a toaster into a freezer effect it? The answer was not much because the toaster heats up to 500F, so from a toasters perspective everywhere is cold and it wouldn't notice much difference from being in 70F or 0F. I remember this when talking about heat pumps since to refrigerant most places would be hot.