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America Needs To Install A Lot More Heat Pumps
(www.distilled.earth)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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It's a really bad piece of jargon, but is an internally consistent definition. They mean (heat entering building)/(work consumed) > 1
Which is a way if defining efficiency (energy out / energy in), just a really awful and misleading one.
In terms of % of carnot efficiency, the best heat pumps are about where stationary heat engines generally are, 40% or so.
Thank you! It seems to me to be like saying "LEDs are more than 100% efficient because we're applying the same metric of efficiency that we would for incandescent bulbs". They're two different methods of generating heat, why would you use the efficiency rule from one to judge the other?