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But that's simply not true, air conditioning has been ubiquitous in the US for decades. They just didn't call it a heat pump, but it's a heat pump. This is ju
by pengaru 5y ago
But that's simply not true, air conditioning has been ubiquitous in the US for decades.
They just didn't call it a heat pump, but it's a heat pump. This is just marketing bullshit AFAICT.
- ajuc 5y agoEvery LED is a solar cell. Every electric engine is a generator. Every speaker is a microphone. Means nothing, because they suck in these unintended applications unless they were specifically designed for them. What changed recently is - heat pumps and solar panels got cheap/good enough to be viable alternative for heating houses in most climates.
- drewcoo 5y agoEvery analogy is lossy but they can be useful. You have used several analogous relations to show a larger pattern. You've extracted the utility and distilled it into its essence. It's really hard to stretch what you wrote too far until it breaks, like most standalone analogies. Love it! (Commenting here in the hope that more people will adopt the tactic.)
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI would say that being able to run in reverse is a material change.