Posted on 09/11/2023 6:41:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Basically, I'm agreeing that a heat pump can't work well in very cold weather, especially older heat pumps (as you put it: "many moons ago"). The heat pump would warm the home in the fall and spring when it's do-able by a heat pump, and do so sometimes with free power if they have some pico wind turbines (assuming it's do-able when I get there and study the specs).
The problem can be solved. It will only take more money. You just don’t believe hard enough. Tap your heals together three times and you can be back in Kansas or Michigan or Canada or whatever hole you crawled out of. /s except for the hole you crawled out of part.
I am not the first Freeper to gloss over articles and comments, LOL. I sort of hinted at the issue, but my point is can the elderly recover the cost of major upgrades before they pass on.
I won't know the numbers until I get there and study the specs like I did my own situation when I went solar and did other home improvements to my home. My energy project is paying for itself on about the 11th year (assuming a reasonable 3% inflation rate on energy costs). Obviously, the Dims are trying really hard to make my energy project payback sooner.
If my family members live outside the nursing home as long as their parents, they probably have 15-20 years left. And they have no debt: their plan is to leave their homes to their heirs. But I don't know how much power they consume per day and how that changes per month (i.e. in the summer in Alabama our power consumption skyrockets, I'm sure that's the opposite for them up north). Nor am I sure how gusty the wind is (i.e. what percentage of days will the wind blow at least 6 mph to turn a pico wind turbine). So I don't have enough data to do a recommendation.
But I will NEVER have an EV..car/truck.
Can’t get a fast charger because the Energy Secretary had a gas powered vehicle occupy the spot?
Make way for the Energy Secretary you peasants!!
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