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Re:How a Heat Pump Works by thekingshorses on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:35AM (#34741963)
If there is a power outage, you can't run your natural gas heater either. It needs fan to run.
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Re:How a Heat Pump Works by triceratops on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:52AM (#34742217)
But you can run a furnace fan off a diesel generator.
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Re:How a Heat Pump Works by p1mrx on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:40PM (#34742972)
Why diesel? If you need natural gas to run the furnace, it might as well run the generator too.
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Re:How a Heat Pump Works by triceratops on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:42PM (#34743001)
Maybe "fossil fuel powered generator" would've captured better what I meant.
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