Atmosphere is typically at 60% humidity. The water has to go somewhere. Mix it with 50,000 cubic feet volume of dusty air every hour and you grow stuff Anthony Fauci would feed to Beagles. Not everything is complicated.
Deep State’s frontmen are idiots.
The people hiding behind them are not.
And the intentions of the people hiding behind their idiot stooges are most certainly not good.
They are not good intentions nor idiots. Those policies are bought and paid for by friends of democrats who enrich themselves selling the “solution.” The people who implement those policies are not wrong headed they are evil. When you consider policies such as ddt prohibition, the environmentalists have an incredible body count to answer for.
heat pumps are total scam in extreme climates ... here in colorado, where winters, even on the plains, can go to -23 degrees for a few days in a row, heat pumps, which are nothing more than reversible whole-house refrigerators + “emergency heat” from a giant toaster, are absolutely insane: an AC with electric heat ...
a year or so ago, there was a local article about some idiot “green” moron Karen crowing about how she had a heat pump installed AND had her natural gas heating ripped out because, you know, “green” ... no doubt she was SHOCKED, i tell you SHOCKED, when her winter electric bills rolled in ...
Nope!
It's part of the well-executed plan the American Communist Party has implemented for the past several decades...
Heat pumps are great as long as the outside temperature is above about 35 deg F. Then you have to switch to some other heating device ... like a gas, coal or fuel oil furnace. Not solar powered electric unless there is no ice or heavy snow storms ever expected.
For the record, I always keep my hybrid water heater (usually running in heat pump mode unless I have a lot of family staying over) set to 135F, just like I did with my regular water heater. (If any FReepers have tips on a different temp I'd appreciate it.)
Let’s check the scoreboard: Your heating bill is just as soul-crushingly high as ever...
Actually no. It runs at just 380W for just 2-3 hours per day during the warm half of the year, or 3-4 hours during the winter (call it 1kWh+ per day). If I didn't have solar, it'd add just 40kWh per month to the power bill (at 16 cents / kWh, call it $6.50 per month to heat my water every month to the same temp I was heating it before with a normal water heater, again if I didn't have solar). And by the way, during the warm half of the year I direct the cold air byproduct that comes out of the water heater into an air receiver by the water heater so that the free cold air helps cool the home. (Thus the hybrid water heater saves me with more than just heating the water tank.)
Don't get me wrong. The whole climate hysteria stuff is a bunch of bunk and I almost always agree with whattsupwiththat. No one should do things like this water heater out of some stupid climate guilt and certainly not be forced with govt regulations justified by their warmageddon cult. But I want us conservatives to have our facts in order when we make arguments such as with this article. And those of us who believe in limited govt should not just want the right people in charge undoing govt overreach. We should also each be striving to make ourselves less dependent on the things govt overregulates (like the overregulated energy market). That includes things like making our homes operate with all the comforts we want and are used to, but with less energy needed from the overregulated natural gas market or overregulated grid.
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I do not know if the technology has improved. Forty years ago a heat pump could bring down the temperature in Austin, for example, only fifteen degrees lower than ambient. In other words, if the ambient outside is 95 degrees then the heat pump could bring the temperature in the home to only 80! 80 is still hot! In cold weather? If it is 30 degrees outside then the temperature in the house is 45?
WTF? ;-)
The problem with lower water heater temps and Legionnaires(sp) is well documented. This is nothing new.
“Proof positive that the road to hell is paved with the good intentions of idiots.”
More like the EVIL INTENTIONS of very smart people.
Anyway, given the cost of electricity in Europe in order to ‘stick it to Putin’ (3 to 4 times as much as the US)...the problem will first be finding the money to turn on the heat pumps.
The story doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve showered almost everyday for the past70 years in water from a water heater that never reached 60 degrees C (140 F). Most people in the US could also say the same.
Similarly, the water in a heat pump, even the heat pumps that generate domestic hot water, never have the heat pump water mix with the water in the hot water heater. This makes the temperature of the primary heat pump irrelevant.
I have installed and used heat pumps since 1988, that first one being a ground water heat pump that also provided domestic hot water. It pulled 52 degree water from our well, and dumped the colder water to a lake. My present heat pumps are air to air.