Re:The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disruptive Yet
by Scoundreller on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:49PM
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Or a home natural gas turbine that also runs your heat pump compressor. And condenses the steam for high efficiency.
The beautiful thing about electrification is its source agnosticism. You can put in heat pumps today, power them off natural gas turbines for now, and switch out to something better in the future at will. As long as your heat pumps can achieve COP of ~2 or better for most of the winter, they should have comparable overall efficiency if we assume the electricity from the natural gas plant is in total about 50% efficient.