Sales are growing so quickly that some installers wonder whether heat pumps could even wipe out the demand for new air conditioners in a few years and put a significant dent in the number of natural gas furnaces.

  • John Stonier@mstdn.ca
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    1 year ago

    @nebula @Rodeo

    Here’s how to compare baseboards to heat pumps.

    Baseboards create heat through resistive loads. As all the energy creates heat, you can say they are 100% efficient, but that is misleading if you take that to be good.

    Heat pumps simply move heat, in either direction, to heat, or cool, and they do this using 1/3rd the energy.

    Today’s heat pumps work at much lower air temperatures, can also use ground loops, or exchange heat from water bodies. #HeatPumps