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Comment by ori_prior

Your numbers are off. Thermal power plants typically do have a thermal-to-electric efficiency of around 30% (40% max), so with your heatpump having an electric-to-thermal efficiency of an assumed 300%, you end up with basically no difference in CO₂ emissions.

Note that there are some misleading efficiency claims for gas plants around 60%, but those are not for thermal-to-electric efficiency but for generating electricity plus district heating from waste heat.

parent ori_prior 3 years ago

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