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Heat pumps are only expensive to install because the installers know that can get away with it. It's basically the same skills needed to install and air-condit
by Fatnino 5y ago
Heat pumps are only expensive to install because the installers know that can get away with it.
It's basically the same skills needed to install and air-conditioner.
- assttoasstmgr 5y ago> Heat pumps are only expensive to install because the installers know that can get away with it. > It's basically the same skills needed to install and air-conditioner. Uh you're thinking of a conventional air-source heat pump, which is just an A/C run in reverse to generate heat. A geothermal heat pump, which is being discussed here, has much higher efficiencies by taking advantage of ground temperature being relatively constant and burying pipework deep in the soil (sometimes a few hundred feet deep) and circulating the heat-transfer fluid through it. A geothermal heat pump, including installation, can range from $12,000 to $45,000 [1] [1] https://www.carrier.com/residential/en/us/products/geothermal-heat-pumps/cost-buying-geothermal-heat-pump/ https://www.carrier.com/residential/en/us/products/geotherma...
- elric 5y agoShouldn't those be called ground source heat pumps? Geothermal energy requires quite a bit of extra depth, no?