Pumping Heat - Ep42: Thomas Nowak
Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change
00:00
The Efficiency of a Heat Pump
One unit of electricity gives us three units of heat. So we're doing work. I mean, it's almost like we're using the electricity to simply move heat around. If you can run your radiators at a very low temperature, if you have to heat them up to high temperature, 70 degrees, it'll be very inefficient. But if you can use underfloor heating, maybe, andyou can run your fluid at, I don't know, 28, 30, 35 degrees, it's gonna be much, much more efficient. That's true, but we also, it's now technical progress has led us towards the situation where we can say 55 degrees, 60 degrees is absolutely
Transcript
Play full episode
