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.

  • Rodeo
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    1 year ago

    I really don’t agree with that. “Baseboard heaters are 100% efficient” is an objectively false statement. And efficiency is a very common and basic concept that doesn’t require a degree to understand.

    I think instead of just dismissing it as pedantic, people could learn something.

    • nebula
      1·
      1 year ago

      Maybe try looking it up.

      Electric resistance heating is 100% energy efficient in the sense that all the incoming electric energy is converted to heat

      • John Stonier@mstdn.ca
        1·
        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