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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the summer, it does make some sense. You are going to have excess heat in your home. In the winter, you are just creating additional load on what is likely a heat pump heating your home.

Heat pumps are more efficient in general because they are just moving heat around instead of converting electricity into heat. They are objectively better for the environment.

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They’re not objectively better for sh*t if they’re relying on grossly inefficient heating elements to make heat because it’s too cold for them to function thermodynamically.

For thermal efficiency sake you’d be much better off burning natural gas and heating the air directly than burning natural gas at some power plant, generating power, transmitting it (and losing some along the way) and THEN trying to turn it BACK into hot air again through electrical resistance. Each step along the way knocks off another 20+ % efficiency. [/quote]

Racist. [/quote]

Understanding thermodynamics makes me a racist.

Got it. [/quote]

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