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You are right to be skeptical, but in this case the lie is not in the performance but that it is a breakthrough. The announcement is basically: A US company (L
by linsomniac 4y ago
You are right to be skeptical, but in this case the lie is not in the performance but that it is a breakthrough.
The announcement is basically: A US company (Lenox) has a prototype heat pump that matches performance of Mitsubishi and LG heat pumps.
The DOE is running a competition to get US companies to improve performance of their heat pumps.
- nfin 4y agoit might work. But there exist sooo many prototyping breaktroughs. Those who follow press releases for many years know that just a tiny fraction can transfer this in real world products that actually work (so many more challenges to overcome compared to prototype situations!! I don’t even know where to begin… every ground is different, average person doing the manual work is not as skilled and has less support engineers, the guys setting/defining the dimensions of various recipients/pumps/conduits are often undeskilled and the efficiency often lacks tremendously for that reason…)
- linsomniac 4y agoMy thinking on it is: It'd better work, they're just trying to catch up to the state of the art. The bigger news would be if Lennox CAN'T make a COP 2 at 5F heat pump. :-