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

• __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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      • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s underfloor heating, the units that do both are more expensive so there must be something different.

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