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Open air heat pumps have a lower limit for their operating temperature, so can't be used efficiently in cold climates (around < 25F), since they start to use more energy than they provide as heat. Geothermal heat pumps solve this, but cost more.

Gas is somewhere around half the cost of electricity. Back in the day, you would still profit with a GPU.



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