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Re:How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) by Mromson on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:29AM (#29976917)
Electric boilers are extremely energy inefficient compared with heat pumps. If you built a Passive House, not going the extra mile for a heat pump seems silly to me. Not to mention that heat pumps can easily protect you against heatwaves (should any happen).
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Re:How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) by coryrc on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:56AM (#29977445)
True Passivhaus needs less than 1000W of heating ever; at that point the expense of heat pump is unnecessary for something rarely used.
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Re:How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) by poseva on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:57AM (#29978316)
Exactly what coryrc said in his comment, for a PassivHaus you recover very slowly the cost of the heatpump and if it brakes once in 10-15 years while it takes to recover the investition... you will never recover it.
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