Heat now kills three times more Europeans than roads. A heat pump is a two-way air conditioner: cooling in July, heating in January, no imported gas.

Heat now kills three times more Europeans than roads. A heat pump is a two-way air conditioner: cooling in July, heating in January, no imported gas.

  • ptmb@piefed.zipEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    Near the end of the article:

    Disclosure: I am an angel investor in FlexDrill, a Vienna startup building the missing machine from this article.

    I thought this deserved further attention and should be at least closer to the start given the strong incentive the article gives to promote the solution they invested in.

  • Pissmidget@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’m curious how this would prevent the need for importing gas to generate the electricity. None of my heat pumps run exclusively on wind and hydropower.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    A working link / definition of a ground-source, residential heat pump might help. WP has a page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_source_heat_pump

    I guess followup Q’s would be like: how practical are they across Europe?, what types of situations would they work best work in and where might they be impractical? How much can they scale to larger buildings?