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Comment on Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold

alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Your mini-split isn’t designed to function to serve as a heat pump at low temperature.

In places like Sweden, they also use heatpumps that are designed for those conditions.

In other news, don’t drive in a Swedish winter with summer tires.

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DarthBueller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Excellent. Now I know that there are different classes of heat pump. Mine is not for prolonged crazy-low temps, others are. Thank you.

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- alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Indeed, but yours is probably cheaper and more effective at cooling when it’s hot and humid out.
  
  For people up north, they will buy a “cold climate air source heat pump”. In temperate regions, an “air source heat pump” will suffice, while down south you will buy an “A/C with a heating mode” (also called reversible A/C.
  
  Sorry about the downvotes. People need to re-learn internet etiquette.
  
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  - DarthBueller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This is the most informative answer yet. Thanks.
    
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  - gears@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks for spreading correct knowledge, as someone who works for a manufacturer of heat pumps it’s refreshing
    
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Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have never seen so many winter tires, and studded winter tires, as I did on my trip to Sweden last winter.

I think they are mandatory there.

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