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Is that the output or the input? If it's the output (i.e. the amount of heat coming out of the condenser outside your house), the input might be only 5kW or even less.

(Probably some jackass is going to downvote me because they think this violates conservation of energy, but no — those 12kW coming out of the heat exchanger include the 5kW of electrical energy that went in, plus another 7kW of heat that’s being extracted from the air being conditioned; and if you were to try to run a heat engine off that 7kW of heat difference, you wouldn't be able to recover the original 5kW. All perfectly thermodynamically copacetic.)



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