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They do not live in isolation, >99.99% of the residential homes are connected to the national grid. They can still use hydro, wind, nuclear, and so on. As for
by Y-bar 2y ago
They do not live in isolation, >99.99% of the residential homes are connected to the national grid. They can still use hydro, wind, nuclear, and so on.
As for energy storage, for example: I am personally looking at a ground thermal unit which can store heat in the ground during the summer and cool the home at the same time. This stored heat can then be extracted for an increased COP during the cold months thereby reducing energy usage per degree of heating.
- euroderf 2y agoIs this any different from a heat pump that has a ground loop ?
- Y-bar 2y agoLots of pumps do not have the built-in functionality to do that natively (they need to bypass the heating element as I understand it). There are add-ons such as https://thermia.com/products/accessories/cooling-module/ https://thermia.com/products/accessories/cooling-module/