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Re:Harnessing America's Heat Pump Moment by happytoexplain on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:49PM (#45698920)
It's semi-true even with modern systems and shouldn't be outright dismissed as "nonsense".

A normal person is scared of the prospect of losing heating when it's most needed. -15F accounts for many places in the US, but many others, not so much. Even New Jersey, which we don't think of as the frigid North, can theoretically drop below that number, and nobody wants "almost always" when it comes to life-giving heat in the coldest winter.

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Re:Harnessing America's Heat Pump Moment by micromacrofoot on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:52PM (#45698948)
I live north of New Jersey by 300 miles and have only used a heat pump for winter heating for 10 years
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Re:Harnessing America's Heat Pump Moment by eldaisfish on Friday October 24, 2025 @10:47PM (#45701008)
no, this is complete nonsense and should be dismissed as such.

People being "scared" is how north america ended up with vehicles the size of tanks. The vast majority of cold climate heat pumps work down to - 20 C in most cases and down to -30 with better models.

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