• M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    4 hours ago

    Don’t you plug your 50 meter long cord in outside, run it though all the stuff you never want hot and then into the window to run your space heater? I mean if you are heating a room, why would the plug be in that same room?

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      3 hours ago

      Fine for electrical efficiency, but in terms of fuel efficiency I can get into an odd situation where I burn the same amount of (say methane) gas in my room, vs in a remote power station (where we might assume any heat losses are not useful). I could end up getting more useful heat out of the same fuel using a nominally less efficient gas heater vs an electric one.

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        2 hours ago

        Ah yes, clearly you should burn coal/natural gas/fissionable material in your home. Very reasonable.