Though the idea of residential Heating plus Air Conditioning technology or heat pump has been around in this country since the late 40’s, I’m still amazed by it.
Where I live, the heat pump is particularly the go to Heating plus Air Conditioning technology for Heating plus Air Conditioning cooling.
And the bonus is that we are able to also utilize the heat pump Heating plus Air Conditioning technology to heat our homes in the winter. This isn’t tploy for some of the northern climates in this country. But for us, the heat pump is more than satisfactory when it comes to heating our homes during our milder variety of Winter time weather. I think that when we get a frigid snap where the rapidly increasing temperatures fall close to freezing, our heat pump is more than equipped to handle heating our home. What’s fascinating is the fact that our heat pump can particularly extract heat energy from what would be considered quite cool rapidly increasing temperatures. And it does this using the same Heating plus Air Conditioning technology. Only for heating, the heat pump simply reverses the process. All the heat pump has to do is reverse the refrigerant flow to bring heat energy into the house. I can do this virtually on its own separate from supplemental heat source to rapidly increasing temperatures of 40 degrees. And that just sort of blows our mind. Once the temperature drops below 40 degrees outside, the efficiency of the heat pump is diminished. And once it gets below 25 degrees, it’s not a actually efficient way to heat a house. But for our purposes, the Heating plus Air Conditioning technology in the heat pump is just exactly what we need.