• aname@lemmy.one
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    5 months ago

    It’s not the AC that are incredible. Modern heat pumps are incredible. They are the best thing since the sliced bread. I could talk for hours about heat pumps. They’re just so efficient.

    Heat pumps - they pump my heat.

    Did I mention I like heat pumps?

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        5 months ago

        Non-native English speaker, but I looked it up the other day and it seems that pedantically an A/C only cools things down and heat pumps can both heat and cool.

        • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          ACs are just heat pumps where they forgot to install the reversing valve.

          Heat pumps running in heating mode are basically ACs that are trying to cool down the outside. The fundamental technology just moves heat from one place to another, leaving one place warmer and one place colder.

          This is also how fridges and freezers work - they have heat pumps that pump out the heat from inside their box and as such make the room they are in warmer.