Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by s0rce on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:18PM
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I didn't think about heat pumps that makes sense. I had electric heat pump for heat when I lived in WA state. Worked well with cheap hydro power.
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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by StillBored on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:12PM
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Yas, there are heat pump systems designed to work at fairly low temps. Those aren't the ones they install in TX, where its just a cheap reversing valve on a stock R410 system. AFAIK they don't even necessarily have aux heat (my mother's in FL didn't) and even if they do, after a decade or two it might not even work and no one would know.