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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by BenjiWiebe on Thursday December 23, 2021 @09:46AM (#29662289)
Resistive heating means using 1kw of electricity to get 1kw of heat.

Heat pumps use 1kw of electricity to get >1kw heat.

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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by OJFord on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:10AM (#29663206)
Not necessarily, it's just uncorrelated since it's not what's doing the actual heating.

Similarly a gas boiler uses 1kW electricity (for the pump) to get potentially >1kW heat out of radiators (and pipes). Because that heat is energy conserved from the gas, not the electricity.

Anyway I didn't mention heat pumps or compare them to resistive heating so I'm not sure what I'm defending.

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