Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market
Submitted 4 days ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to energy@slrpnk.net
https://electrek.co/2024/10/24/seriously-good-cold-climate-heat-pumps-are-headed-to-the-us-market/
Wahots@pawb.social 4 days ago
We had great heat pumps in Montana already. And if it gets insanely (-38f) cold, there’s a resistive fallback mode. But I’d wager most places aren’t gonna get to 38 below.
Tyfud@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not for much longer, at least.
fishpen0@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Interestingly climate change also makes cold snaps worse and more extreme in some places just as much as it increases heat waves. Hence the record cold in Boston last year that destroyed hundreds of homes with frozen pipes
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
I’m in PA and it doesn’t get nearly as cold here, of course. We got mini splits in 2022 that can do -33f, I think. No resistive backup for us.
Mini splits are so, so nice.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Heat pumps don’t work well (even the new ones coming from this article are only good to 15f) anywhere near that cold. Most are only good to about 25f. Anywhere they’re installed that drops below freezing all have a backup heat system, whether or not it’s a gas backup, or resistive electric backup.
hypna@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I am looking out my window at a heat pump in my back yard which is effective down to -15F. Your info is I think about 10 years out of date.
Cort@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think you’re forgetting ground source heat pumps. They’ll work fine at -40 because they don’t rely on air temperature.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 4 days ago
They’re literally all over the Alps and you’ve been lied to
socsa@piefed.social 4 days ago
I have tun hest pumps down to -10F just fine in multiple homes.