Heat pumps are the order of the day where I am.......it drys out the air too much to suit me.....makes my sinuses bleed.......
—”it drys out the air too much to suit me.....makes my sinuses bleed.......:
Heating air causes the air to expand while the water vapor remains a fixed amount; therefore lower humidity.
The source of the heat does not change anything, the humidity remains the same.
Perhaps it is Jevons Paradox at work; more efficient so you use more of it?
I see this with our Air Conditioning in the summer.
“Heat pumps are the order of the day where I am.......it drys out the air too much to suit me.....makes my sinuses bleed.......”
How does a heat pump in heating mode dry out the air?
My nose bled in winter, all winter, when I was a child. After my mom had to clean the blood off the pillowcase for the umpteenth time shed talked to the doctor and he recommended A&D ointment in each nostril every night.
I’ve used that stuff every night since, both summer and winter, and it works great. Keeping the nostrils healthy and without micro-cracks helps with your overall health.
“ Heat pumps are the order of the day where I am.......it drys out the air too much to suit me.....makes my sinuses bleed.......”
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Yep. And it delivered a perceptible bit of ‘wind chill’.
our heat pump tries to work at freezing and spends way too much time noisily defrosting. This year I’ve been shutting it down all the cool, quiet, comfortable night and running gas heat in the morning.