New mini-split unit efficiency:
Posted on 07/24/2024 11:03:27 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced an investment of $4.3 billion into community-driven projects in an effort to ramp up local climate action across the country.
The funding will go to 25 recipients across 30 states, ranging from projects involving forest management to household energy efficiency. It will also help states, cities and territories develop climate action plans to meet local sustainability goals.
Details about the latest funding were shared with the media on an embargoed basis Friday, two days before President Biden’s announcement that he was dropping his reelection bid. The funding reflects how the Biden administration is rushing to distribute climate money before the November election. This month, the Energy Department unveiled $1.7 billion for retooling 11 auto factories to make electric vehicles and their components.
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New mini-split unit efficiency:
First time I heard of someone using their gas-fired furnace to cool their house in the summer!
No different from the outside condenser unit of any traditional air conditioner.
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Do you need to use your air conditioner in your house when it’s freezing outside?
Under normal conditions you probably wouldn’t ever run an air conditioner in the wintertime, but if you did, your air conditioner would run very efficiently, because it would be trying to expel heat out of that condenser coil and having no problem doing it in such cold conditions.
By why would you?
When it gets hot outside, that’s when you need to expel heat through that coil, but the hotter the air is that you move through it, the less efficient it gets. You have to overcome that loss of efficiency by investing more energy into the process.
In terms of energy efficiency, this process is counter intuitive.
However, if you trying to create a world where everything relies on electricity such as EV’s and heatpumps, then it makes perfect sense.
“A gas furnace or anything that makes heat through combustion in more efficient by leaps and bounds!”
You are so wrong. Your bias allows your ignorance to come out.
“But there is only one problem with this. You have to use a lot of energy up in order to accomplish this expansion and compression of your medium.”
But you ignore that the energy moved is greater than the energy used.
Undeniable fact.
“In terms of energy efficiency, this process is counter intuitive.”
Only to the ignorant.
“When it gets hot outside, that’s when you need to expel heat through that coil, but the hotter the air is that you move through it, the less efficient it gets. You have to overcome that loss of efficiency by investing more energy into the process.”
Do you have air conditioning in your house?
Your views on this topic seem more political and idiosyncratic than they do technical or engineering-based.
But, mini splits are good for heat as well. I have a heat pump/AC regular unit that heats down to 40, splits go to 0 I'm told. I use my heat pump to heat for April/May and September/October so I only need 4 tons of pellets for Nov-March. The electric bill hardly goes up when using the heatpump. Seems much cheaper than LP heat which is part of my heating solution in the Nov-March months.
First time I heard of someone using their gas-fired furnace to cool their house in the summer!
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My example was about heating, and that was to explain the radical difference between combustion (natural exothermic heat energy) and trying to blow heat into a cold coil with cold air. You know that I wasn’t saying you use your furnace for cooling.
However, there is a way to use combustion for cooling such as gas absorption technology.
A consulting firm in our neighborhood installed several EV chargers in their parking lot shortly after biden took office. They remain almost entirely unused!
I’m surprised the crackheads haven’t cut the cables for copper.
“...for climate change!”
Maybe there are measures worth taking to moderate climate change (I don’t think so).
However, right now I believe reducing our national debt is a better use of our tax dollars.
“This month, the Energy Department unveiled $1.7 billion for retooling 11 auto factories to make electric vehicles and their components.”
That, in a nutshell, is what’s wrong with government.
That’s textbook Communism and Fascism. Optimally, the government MUST leave the market to do what works best. If electric vehicles were really the best option people would buy them willingly. Mandates would be unnecessary.
“My example was about heating”
Then why were you rattling on about air conditioners?
Then why were you rattling on about air conditioners?
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Heat pumps are reversible air conditioners.
“However, there is a way to use combustion for cooling such as gas absorption technology.”
I served in the Navy.
“Heat pumps are reversible air conditioners.”
Not technically correct. Even non-reverse cycle A/C’s are heat pumps’
I wonder when they are going to install a charging station in the quarter-section I farm north of me so I can charge my battery-powered tillage tractor and combine?
In certain climates they work, the farther north you go not so much.
Day one - zero out those funds.
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