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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Gas stoves are more energy efficient producing heat than electric.

Engineering rule of thumb:

Combustion is more energy efficient at producing heat.

Electricity is more energy efficient at producing movement.
gpt
&gt;Gas stoves are more energy efficient producing heat than electric.

Can you explain how? As a very much not-engineer the notion I'd been running around with is that generally when people look at an electrical device and talk about how efficient it is, most/all of the inefficiency is when the product makes heat instead of doing what you want it to (like a TV).  If the *goal* is making heat, how does it do so inefficiently?

Is it just that electricity offers an intermediate step which introduces overhead -- "burning natural gas to make electricity to power a stove is less efficient than just burning gas to make heat"? Or is there some other inefficiency here.