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That's really cool. Hope someone does one with integrated aircon soon.
by ajb 3y ago
That's really cool. Hope someone does one with integrated aircon soon.
- stephen_g 3y agoI have often dreamed about solutions for this, but at the end of the day I'm not sure that your average household would really have enough coincident demand for heating and cooling to make it worth it... Definitely for larger buildings it makes a lot of sense though (and there are chillers that have heat recovery now for this kind of thing)
- ajb 3y agoI was not thinking of running heating and cooling at the same time. Simply that if you run a heat pump in reverse, you can use it for cooling. So you should be able to use the same device for heating in winder and cooling in summer. Even portable aircon's do this. The tricky part here is that you want heating to transfer heat to water, because radiators are much nicer than heated air. These Co2 based heat pumps are good because they can heat to a higher temperature which is necessary if you want to use your existing radiators or your house is difficult to insulate. But I'm not sure it would work well to use 'radiators' for cooling. Apart from any other reason, you won't want to risk freezing them.
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