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Re:Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers by OJFord on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:45AM (#32692139)
I know. It's only >100% 'efficient' if you ignore the input of 'outside heat'. That is not a normal calculation, and not really called 'efficiency'.

It's desirable for multiple reasons, of course, but it's not efficiency.

Re:Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers by pmoleri on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:34PM (#32693491)
Unfortunately by that metric other electrical heaters tend to 0% efficiency because they are not making use of the virtually unlimited energy outside the buildings.

The 400% metric let's you compare with other heaters, the 100% is kind of useless.

Re:Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers by OJFord on Friday September 02, 2022 @07:06PM (#32696742)
They're not using them as an input, so.. obviously they're not included in the input/output calculation?