You would like to purchase a greenhouse to keep flowers at a temperature of 80oF during the winter and found a heat pump advertised to use 1 hp. You have calculated that the room leaks 20 Btu/sec. The ambient average temperature during the winter is 50oF. Would you purchase the heat pump? Calculate the rate of entropy generated in the heat pump

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