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What Is a Heat Pump?
- palata 3y ago> Given all the recent buzz, you might be surprised to learn that you use heat pumps already—there’s probably more than one in your home and another in your car. You just don’t call them heat pumps: You use the terms refrigerator or air conditioner.
- simonblack 3y agoIn some countries (Australia), heat pumps are often called Reverse-Cycle Air Conditioners. Some newish (last 25 years or so) houses have no other form of heating. In other words, reverse the cycle, and instead of the air-conditioner pushing cold air into the room and warm air outside, it will push warm air into the room and cold air outside.
- rcxdude 3y agoAnd it's not very hard to make something which can do both: it's effectively just an extra valve to reverse the flow of refrigerant.
- mikhailfranco 3y agoComing to all homes in Europe soon. Hydrocarbon stoves and boilers will be outlawed soon, for some target point in the near future. First for new installations, then banning existing fossil fuel burning devices. The pace varies by country and political agenda, but EU will force laggards to catch up, and print money to subsidize the transition, where necessary: https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/energy-efficiency/heat-pumps_en https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/energy-efficiency/heat-pu... https://energy.ec.europa.eu/news/heat-pumps-action-plan-online-consultation-launched-commission-accelerate-roll-out-across-eu-2023-06-07_en https://energy.ec.europa.eu/news/heat-pumps-action-plan-onli... There are already several startups trying to modernize and optimize the process of installing and maintaining heat pumps in Europe.