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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by jaakl on Sunday November 05, 2017 @01:42PM (#15630834)
Heat pump takes energy from two sources, power grid and outside environment: air, landmass or water (there are even air+land models etc). Their energy output is always less than sum of sources, so their efficency is never over 100%. But as the ambient land/air/water heat is generally ”free” then we seem to get 3-500% economy. I have never even seen the technical/physical efficiency numbers for heat pumps as consumers do not care about this.

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