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kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoHeat pumps cap out at about 250% efficiency, so you’d still be spending more to run them than to burn natural gas at that ratio.
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kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoHeat pumps cap out at about 250% efficiency, so you’d still be spending more to run them than to burn natural gas at that ratio.
spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Heat pumps easily exceed 2.5 COP. More like 4 in the UK climate. And gas isn’t 100% efficient either. But yeah it’s a wash or can be more expensive to heat with heat pumps where electricity is really expensive. It helps if we all conveniently ignore externalities like pollution and carbon too.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Thanks for the correction, edited. How is gas not 100% efficient, though?
But yeah, heat pumps are definitely more environmentally friendly (unless you’re habitually letting the refrigerant out, o guess). The real argument is whether the extra energy is worth it for protein folding (I’d say generally no, but if you don’t have a heat pump, might as well).
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Burning any fuel isn’t 100% efficient, I’m not sure I could explain it well myself but I went out and found a website talking about it
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