Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by throw0101c on Sunday December 11, 2022 @03:43PM
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> Heat pumps don’t work all that well in Canadian climates.
They seem to work okay in many parts of Alaska (down to about -20C):
* https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2021/even-in-frigid-tempe...
Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by woodrow on Sunday December 11, 2022 @05:54PM
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Parts of Alaska (eg Fairbanks, Juneau) are not as cold as the Canadian prairies, where it frequently gets well below -20C in the depths of winter. In Winnipeg the average low in January is -21C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_climate_of_Winni...
Advocates usually don’t mention that the solution for the millions of houses with hydronic systems are usually mini-splits, which are both ugly and noisy.
Lots of people who don’t have heat pumps are rabid advocates of them. In some cases trying to ban gas heat.