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The hunt for the most efficient heat pump in the world (arstechnica.com)
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A new generation of engineers has realized they can push heat pumps to the limit.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What really matters is the wattage needed to cool the space. That's really it. The less energy used, the less the strain on the grid, or the less solar capacity needed.

[โ€“] spidermanchild 2 points 5 months ago

Wattage is power, not energy. But I still generally prefer carbon as a metric because that's the climate issue, so by focusing on it directly we can make more informed decisions. It also incorporates time of day/seasonal (peak) impacts implicitly, which also have profound effects on the grid, more than total energy used. The essence of our comments is the same though.