Re:Heat Pumps Work Miracles
by maxerickson on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:31PM
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There's closed loop ground source heat pumps. It's all very situational as to whether they are practical to install. The vertical ones are more expensive but don't need a whole lot of ground area to be installed.
In my city, about 10% of the district heating load is covered by heat pumps where the heat source is municipal waste water.
Re:Heat Pumps Work Miracles
by Scoundreller on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:08AM
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Toronto does this for district air conditioning with incoming city water.
I don’t think they’ve bothered to calculate the effects of pumping warmer water into everyone’s air conditioned home...
Re:Heat Pumps Work Miracles
by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:13PM
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If we think insulating a single home is bad, image trying to build the infrastructure for that throughout a city.
In a dense urban setting, you can heat homes with water heated at the local power plant, either fossil or nuclear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration