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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Heat pumps cap out at about 250% 400% efficiency, so you'd still be spending more to run them than to burn natural gas at that ratio.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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).

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