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.

  • apprehensively_human
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    1 year ago

    One of the downsides with really good energy efficient products is that they tend to take longer to do their task compared to the old quick and dirty models.

    For example you can now buy high efficiency heat pump clothes dryers which can operate on 120v without a vent, but will take far longer to dry a load of laundry than your typical electric dryer. Uninformed people who buy the product are immediately disappointed with how long they take and will call it defective.

    “If my gas furnace can heat my house in seconds and for pennies, why would I spend thousands on a lousy heat pump?”