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

NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  brb putting in my window unit from the outside

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  • __dev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’d need to collect the condensate, but that would actually work quite well.

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    • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also most of the electronics on the cold side aren’t designed to be exposed to the elements, so that would be a problem

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  • Gordon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You think you are being a smartass but that’s exactly what heat pumps do. The only functionality difference between an AC unit and a heat pump is a reversing valve.

    But without a reversing valve you could put your AC unit in backwards and heat your house in the winter.

    The whole premise of an AC unit is to take the heat from inside the house and put it outside, leaving you with cooler air inside.

    So in the winter a heat pump simply reverses the flow of the freon and moves the heat from outside to inside. Yes. You are “cooling the whole neighborhood” when you run a heat pump.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wish it was standard to be able to do both. My heat pump is unreal efficient and cheap and great but I’d love a cool breeze every now and then.

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      • Gordon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It definitely can. If yours can’t then it’s likely just the thermostat wired wrong.

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