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If you could efficiently extract the energy, which you can't. A typical coal plant is 33% efficient. You can get 100% efficiency converting the coal to hea

If you could efficiently extract the energy, which you can't. A typical coal plant is 33% efficient. You can get 100% efficiency converting the coal to heat, but a heat pump can convert that battery energy to heat at 300-500% efficiency.

adrianN 2y ago
For the purpose of "burn your house down", the energy is usually extracted fairly efficiently from both coal and a battery.
- pfdietz 2y ago
  And from the large amount of wood and other combustibles that make up the house and its contents.