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by quickthrowman 244 days ago
That’s still about two orders of magnitude less than an electric furnace (100A at 240V single-phase is 24kW)

Resistive heat is really crappy, a 7-8kW heat pump could replace the hypothetical 24kW furnace.

1Wh = 3.412141633 BTU/hr