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shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 year agoJust watched a heat pump install vid and that looks a bit complicated. Something like window AC units just require you to install it and turn it on. Shouldnt heat pumps be simple like that too?
philpo@feddit.de 1 year ago
A window unit is technically a heat pump (air to air heat pump). But they are terribly inefficient and ineffective - they often achieve less than 25% of the heating capacity of a proper heating setup. (Cooling is a bit different)
Heatpumps are comparably easy to install if you compare them to regular thermal heating. You won’t need a chimney, no fuel storage or gas pipes. And they are much, much,much easier to maintain - no ash removal, no cleaning of potentially cancerous substances from a burn chamber,etc.
Of course they are still more complicated than a window unit - but that is only slightly so with the benefit of massive gains.