More like 99.99% the only electricity coming into the PC and not heating the house is the very small amount of light and sound leaving the house. Still worse than a heat pump, but pretty efficient at heating.
EVs are finally starting to use heat pumps for heating and cooling their batteries (and cabin climate), I wonder how long before that’s available for PCs? Just need a little hole saw to get an evaporator/condenser outside.
I think it’s actually closer to 100%, if not actually 100% due to it being a resistive load. All electricity not used for processing gets expelled as heat, so for the purposes of heating a room, 100% efficiency.
I think heat pumps are still more efficient, though, due to getting heat from outside, but not 100% sure on that.
Even if it’s 97% efficient, a heat pump can still easily beat it.
True that
I wish heatpumps ran factorio 😔
Yea but can you game on a heat pump?
You could probably run Doom on one.
Good point
More like 99.99% the only electricity coming into the PC and not heating the house is the very small amount of light and sound leaving the house. Still worse than a heat pump, but pretty efficient at heating.
What about the fans?
Their waste is heat. They might waste some energy by sending air out of the house, but any energy they impart on air eventually becomes heat
EVs are finally starting to use heat pumps for heating and cooling their batteries (and cabin climate), I wonder how long before that’s available for PCs? Just need a little hole saw to get an evaporator/condenser outside.
I think it’s actually closer to 100%, if not actually 100% due to it being a resistive load. All electricity not used for processing gets expelled as heat, so for the purposes of heating a room, 100% efficiency.
I think heat pumps are still more efficient, though, due to getting heat from outside, but not 100% sure on that.