Cleaning The Energy Grid | Dave Jones
Planet: Critical
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How Much Efficiency Does a Heat Pump Really Do?
There's an efficiency aspect of how much of the sun hitting the solar panel can be converted and that's going up every year. But there's a kind of a limit to how high that can naturally be be captured anyway. A heat pump is actually really bizarre when you look at the efficiency because if you've got my bill them fan he's the giving me one down here and it's quite efficient like it's over 90% efficient so it's used out. The same concept with a coal power plant that you're actually physically losing two thirds of that energy that'sgoing up going up a chimney in the form of heat.
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