• TheSaus@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      IIRC for every watt of electricity, 4 watts of energy get moved from the inside bit of your AC to the outside unit

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      1 year ago

      What the other guy said. It’s down to the fact that you aren’t actually heating/cooling down a room, you’re just moving the heat already there around. E.g. in winter, instead of producing your own heat with electricity, which is 100% efficient, you take heat from the outside and put it inside, using a lot less energy in the process than if you were to create the heat inside of your home.

      Though I’m not sure if it’s that efficient, I think I heard it’s more around the 150-200% mark, but I’m not sure.

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        1 year ago

        I think I heard it’s more around the 150-200% mark

        Most cheap air conditioners have COPs (coefficients of performance) around 3.2-3.5, which means 320-350% efficiency. In real world conditions, the best systems reach 4.5, though the theoretical limit is about 8.0.