By installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo, Oyvind Solstad killed three birds with one stone, improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.

Heat pumps can’t take the cold? Nordics debunk the myth::By installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo, Oyvind Solstad killed three birds with one stone, improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.

  • MaxHardwoodEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I have an air sourced heat pump and it gets to -35C for a few weeks at time here. When it’s that cold it does produce heat but your breath is hotter. There’s no point in running it as it just doesn’t make any kind of useful heat. Below -10C the amount of heat it produces noticeably tapers off.