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I worked for a chair that studied this kind of stuff - your best bet is to figure out how to reduce the temperature lift. Due to the way the Carnot equation works (at least, that's what I _think_ it's called, this is all a while ago), that really get's the heatpump efficiency singing.

reduce the heating temperature by increasing the area you're radiating from - floor heating / ceiling heating is way more efficient than radiators since you can deliver the same amount of heat at much lower temperatures to the space.



Putting fans on radiators should also increase the amount of heat that can be transferred, right?


right, you can use low temp radiators or fancoils than are built for this use cases.




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