Heat pumps are efficient but small electric generators very much not so.
Anybody know how the cascade performs? If you have a fixed amount of propane and a suitably large generator and wish to heat a house, are you better off running a generator + heat pump or just burning it? Assume for the sake of discussion that utility or local solar electrical power are unavailable and that you can't easily capture waste heat from the generator exhaust
Andrew Zonenberg
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