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by kenmacd 1260 days ago
The Carnot limit of heat pump heating from -25C (-13F) to 20C (68F) is over 6.5. That's 650% efficient. There's a lot of heat in our 'cold' air. If you're going to try to claim 'thermal dynamics' [sic] you should at least do the math on it first:

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