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You seem to be missing something fundamental here, I’m not sure what it is. How do you think heat pumps work?
by colechristensen 3y ago
You seem to be missing something fundamental here, I’m not sure what it is. How do you think heat pumps work?
- Arrath 3y agoOP has a point, fundamentally you could drive the heat pump by a little gas turbine, or bridge the gap with a gas powered generator.
- theteapot 3y agoCombined Heat and Power (CHP) is big in Europe.
- exe34 3y agoWhat I had in mind was that heating and cooling using an air-conditioner, a fridge or a "heat pump" is fundamentally the same thing, and electricity is just one way of driving it. Ultimately you have a gas that you compress to release heat (outside for AC, inside for heat pump), which then expands (inside for A/C, outside for a heat pump). The compressor can run off a pedal bike for all it cares.