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Re:How a Heat Pump Works by nicoburns on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:53AM (#34742235)
If you measure the efficiency of heat output relative to the electrical input power, then yes. The trick is that there's actually another input: latent heat in the environment. But given that this is abundant and freely available we don't usually bother to include that in our calculations.

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