• 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Plus the extra emissions from dirty power plants to power all of the A/C

    i mean if we had AC that would work with 100% efficiency, then it would be the prime use case for solar panels. you only need AC when there is a lot of sunlight and vice versa.

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      4 months ago

      Technically, all heat pumps have greater than 100% efficiency. It is how electric heat pump heating can compete with natural gas heating in terms of efficiency.

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      I don’t think we’ll ever make any machine that’s 100% efficient (electric resistance space heaters aside), but maximizing the efficiencies we can will at least mitigate most of the problems if they’re powered by clean energy.

      Not sure if ground source heat pumps (which would heat the ground rather than the air in the summer in AC mode) would make a meaningful difference or not.