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Comment by lupire

Efficiency is a misleading word for heating, because the units don't match; they are both energy, but different "type". The denominator is fuel energy lost, but the numerator is thermal energy change within an area of interest. A heat pump moves thermal energy from outside, changing unimportant thermal energy into good thermal energy.

"Coefficient of performance" is a better term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance

parent lupire 4 years ago

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