JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
But you can heat an area with ‘better than 100% or efficiency’ if you use a heat pump and move heat from one place to another. Coefficients of performance (cop) of about 2.5 I think are pretty common, meaning if you put 100 watts into moving heat, the area will get 250 watts warmer.
cosmic_skillet@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Total amount of heat for the entire closed system does not increase over 100% of energy used to drive the heat pump. Like you said, you just moved heat around