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TheRealOneTwo t1_iyckukl wrote

It it's massively inefficient for heating so it costs more to heat the same amount of space

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254LEX t1_iyd3hsw wrote

It's 100% efficient. It doesn't move as much heat as a heat pump, but it's as good as a space heater.

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ShiggnessKhan OP t1_iydedno wrote

Thanks that was my thinking as well, posted in part to see if I missed something.

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ShiggnessKhan OP t1_iycrl74 wrote

Can you explain that because from what I understand any device that converts electricity into heat is 100% efficient.

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flexonaho t1_iydvw4x wrote

Not if that's not the intended conversation of the electricity. If your plug in heater also ran spreadsheets as a byproduct, then that wouldn't be an efficient heater

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ShiggnessKhan OP t1_iydyycd wrote

The spreadsheets isn't taking away heat pretty much any electricity that goes into processing ends up as heat in the end.

If I'm missing something here I sincerely would like to know what its kind of the reason I posted this thought in the first place.

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flexonaho t1_iydzsvz wrote

It does now because we haven't made everything 100% efficient. Everything starts as potential energy and the more of that potential energy you can convert into the energy you want, with less wasted on other forms of unwanted energy, the more efficient your conversion is.

It's like the ways cars are more efficient now. No less energy is imputed but the way it's user has been made more efficient

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