“Doesn’t mean they don’t work in cold weather, which is what I was addressing.”
They do work, down to a point, so they’re better than nothing, and their efficiency is someone higher than a resistance heater down there, so that’s good. But what of the cost, as they DEFINITELY more complex? Once can buy a lot of electricity for the cost of these units.
I don’t have a big problem with heat pumps, though. But if we start replacing fossil fuel heating system with them (soon to be mandated in NY State), we better have a hell of a lot more power generation or we’ll have some SERIOUS Texas-style freeze-outs, and like Texas, at the WORST TIMES.
Not sure I’m following your logic there. Yeah, it may well have been a massive waste of yet more taxpayer dollars to subsidize heat pumps that weren’t justified on their own: I don’t know. But they generally pull less from the grid than fully electric heating and cooling, so are useful there.
Fossil fuels (not that they are really “fossil” fuels) are still my favorites, btw.