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On Thursday, 3 October 2019 11:57:18 UTC+1, Andy Burns wrote:
apparently the EU's method is to accept electric heating is 100%
efficient, then divide by a "conversion co-efficient" of 2.5 then add
and remove various fiddle factors


So gas heating is more efficient than electric heating, but gas heating is
being phased out...?


Because the gas will run out while we can still generate electricity
and very efficiently with nukes. And it makes sense to use the gas
in cars which can't be run on electricity so efficiently.