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sitkack
on Dec 30, 2017
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The Near Future of Electric Cars: Many Models, Few...
Not to be technically correct, but electric heat is 100% efficient.
sgc
on Dec 30, 2017
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A heat pump can be more than 100% efficient in the sense you seem to be talking about. It transfers heat from one area to another, and can bring in more heat to a space than the energy used could produce in heat through a resistive heating element.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
sitkack
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I think you were looking for this,
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/heatpump.h...
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