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		URSpider94 on Jan 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building an open source Nest for what its worth, people in the trades would not consider a heat pump "electric heat", even though of course the power does come from electricity. electric heat refers specifically to heat generated by heating an element with current.

aconbere on Jan 30, 2014 [–]

Fascinating! (coming back to this late). What would the consider an electric heat pump, or what would they call it?

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