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He's kinda wrong unless you live in the northern part of the country. A heat pump is a multiplyer - it takes that incoming energy and can get a multiple of hea
by ars 4y ago
He's kinda wrong unless you live in the northern part of the country.
A heat pump is a multiplyer - it takes that incoming energy and can get a multiple of heat (the exact multiple is the rating of the pump and varies).
That's where the part of the country comes in - in the north the multiplyer is lower, in the south it's higher. With a nice high multiplyer it's a great deal.
I wish though, that they had natural gas based heat pump - now THOSE would be really efficient!
- jeffbee 4y agoYou can buy propane-fired refrigerators so I do not see why you couldn't make such a thing. You can also buy heat pumps where propane is the working fluid, which is vaguely ironic.
- nkurz 4y agoNatural gas powered heat pumps actually exist, and are commercially available, although rare in North America. Most use an ammonia absorption cycle. Efficiency is lower than one might be hoping, quite a bit less than 2x. Here's a Canadian study evaluating one: https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/home/heating-and-cooling/evaluation-of-a-gas-absorption-heat-pump-archetype-house-vaughan/ https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/home/heating-and-cooling/....