L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoHeat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its targetwww.canarymedia.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1262arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squareBuelldozer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down6·edit-23 years ago …which in the north only happens for a few hours a year… I know the guy in the TC video used Chicago as an example but the “few hours a year” thing simply isn’t true for many of us. Where I live we had many days below -15f including a week where itpretty much stayed between -20 and -30 for nearly a week straight. A Heat Pump will still work, even here, but you need to be careful about which one you purchase and how it handles cold weather.
I know the guy in the TC video used Chicago as an example but the “few hours a year” thing simply isn’t true for many of us.
Where I live we had many days below -15f including a week where itpretty much stayed between -20 and -30 for nearly a week straight.
A Heat Pump will still work, even here, but you need to be careful about which one you purchase and how it handles cold weather.