Re: Gore brainwashing world to ban the light bulb!

John Wallace wrote:

How does that work then?

I put 1 kilowatt of electric power into a light, any kind of light,
tungsten, carbon arc, CFL, I get 1 kilowatt of heat in the room.
> Efficiency 100%.

I put 0.9 KW electricity into my heatpump and gets aprox 2.5 KW heat
(heating the warm-water used for heating the house).
Efficiency > 250%. The heatpump takes it's "heat" from the
ventilation air going out of the house, lowering it's temp
from aprox 20 degC to aprox 5 degC.

I'd rather use *that* heat to warm my house then the heat from
lamps at "only" 100% efficiency where I'd needed 2.5 KW of
electricity to get the same amount of heating effect.

Regards,
Jan-Erik.
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