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Even better it just uses the waste heat from the cooling heat pump so it doesn't cost any extra to run

• arrow7000 3y ago
  Oh that's genius
• ballenf 3y ago
  Total tangent, but why don't homes use these ideas broadly? We have refrigerators, A/C and hot water heaters all in close proximity. Not to mention cool water. Would it really be so hard to get some of the waste heat or cool from those processes into the others?
  • ghaff 3y ago
    >We have refrigerators, A/C and hot water heaters all in close proximity. Maybe yes maybe no. My water heater is in the basement and I don't have AC. It would all have to be very house-specific and customized. And it would tie together what would otherwise be independent systems. A lot of complexity which is usually a bad thing especially at small scale.
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  • hoseja 3y ago
    Fridges use minuscule amounts of energy. The added complexity of integration would overwhelm any savings.