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Re:The Curse of the Modern Office by Retric on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:05AM (#13030959)
The energy use numbers are kind of silly.

Nuclear is ~20% of our electricity gen, so 1/4th of that is 1/20th or 5% of US electricity aka not really that big a deal. Energy wise getting to an office is generally far more expensive.

Further they talk about BTU for heating ignoring heat pumps generally being over 100% efficient and running on electricity.

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Re:The Curse of the Modern Office by brokenmachine on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:19PM (#13034215)
> heat pumps generally being over 100% efficient

Que? How can anything be over 100% efficient?

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Re:The Curse of the Modern Office by elric1v on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:19AM (#13034552)
Because efficiency is measured by how much heat you get compared to the electricity you put in, and heat pumps cheat by moving heat in from outside. So you get more heat than you could from the energy input.
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