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All utilities will be much cheaper if they are amortized over many properties. Heat pump capital costs are too high. They should be standardized or designed to
by hasmanean 4y ago
All utilities will be much cheaper if they are amortized over many properties.
Heat pump capital costs are too high. They should be standardized or designed to be cheap and used everywhere…to recover waste heat from everywhere in the home.
- theluketaylor 4y agoAir source heat pumps don't cost significantly differently from gas furnaces or boilers, especially once you account for running costs. Anyone with A/C already has an air source heat pump, just one that only moves heat from inside the house to outside. Moving heat in both directions take some extra valves and an extra heat exchanger, but this doesn't dramatically increase costs. The basic principal and components are exactly the same. Ground source is expensive, but that's due to drilling and/or trenching. The actual heat pump is a tiny fraction of the bill to install ground source heating.