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> Hint, it is cheaper to make your house warm than it is to keep it cool This is a strange hint given that it's false, and this is easily looked up. https://w
by samatman 4y ago
> Hint, it is cheaper to make your house warm than it is to keep it cool
This is a strange hint given that it's false, and this is easily looked up.
https://www.raleighheatingandair.com/blog/is-a-heat-pump-more-effective-at-cooling-or-heating/ https://www.raleighheatingandair.com/blog/is-a-heat-pump-mor...
That just happens to be the first link I found, everyone will tell you the same thing. A degree of cooling is about five times as efficient as a degree of heating.
It's easy to see why. A heat pump gets its heat from either the ground or the air, either way this has to be amplified considerably because they are colder than the comfortable temperature.
Heat pumps running backward, air conditioners if you will, merely concentrate the heat and expel it.
Making matters worse, the amount colder than ideal which cold climates get is far lower than the amount hotter which hot climates achieve.
Making matters even worse than that, cold climates such as the Midwest still require air conditioning, just not for as many months.
Bottom line: Texas is cheaper to keep at a given interior temperature than Ohio. It isn't even close.
- photochemsyn 4y agoI imagine the design of the house in question matters a lot, as well as the contingency issue, i.e. people aren't prepared for ever more common freak weather events in their locale, such as a deep freeze in Texas or a heat wave in Ohio. These can have disproportionate impacts for the unprepared (pipes bursting, heat stroke, etc.).
- samatman 4y agoIt won't though, the statement I'm replying to is normalized to one house. There's just no cheaper way to heat a house than to cool it, energetically speaking. Economically, sure, maybe you have a back lot and cordwood, who knows.