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Default Electric baseboard heat bad?

You mean I can take my heat pump evaporator coil unit, bring it indoors, remove
heat from my house and then put it back into the house and get more heat that I
take out for no energy cost?

Bunch of nonsense.

This is just plain grade nine physics.

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Joseph Meehan wrote:

Other than heat pumps, all electric heat will cost the same to use.


Let's not forget that dehumidifiers are heat pumps.

Moving a pound of 55 F 100% RH basement air with 0.0093 pounds of water vapor
up into an airtight house and warming it to 65 with 0.24(65-55) = 2.4 Btu and
drying it to 30% RH so it contains 0.004 pounds of water, releasing 1000x5.3
= 5.3 Btu, provides 5.3-2.4 = 2.9 Btu more heat than the electrical energy
needed to operate the dehumidifier.

Nick