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All heaters are 100% efficient in a closed system. However, your house is not a closed system. It’s a spatial region of an open system. In this context it makes sense to talk about efficiency as being lower or greater than 100%.



I wish this were made evident to the hoteliers with bar fridges kept in sealed cupboards...




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