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On 19/05/2021 23:23, Max Demian wrote:
A gas power station is 30-50% efficient, the rest being waste heat
unless you can use it for something like district heating.


no, its 40-70% efficient actually

and heat pumps are effectively 200-300% efficient in their use of
electricity and environmental energy to create heat



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