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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
&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.
gpt
Induction is definitely more efficient, even building in generating the electricity and transporting it. Almost the entirety of the energy goes straight to the pan, whereas gas dumps a ton of heat into the stovetop and surrounding air.