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by IgorPartola 1569 days ago
I am not an expert on this but my understanding is that a fossil file plant wastes something like 60% of its energy as lost heat. There is also transmission losses. Whereas an oil or gas heater can get to like 97% efficiency in heating water when on site. Hell, you could get heat for free by just removing it from the smoke stack of a coal fired power plant.