The chilly New England state blew past its goal to install 100,000 heat pumps by 2025. Now it's pledging to install 175,000 more by 2027.

Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target::undefined

  • @nxfsiEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Heat pump = air conditioner that cools the outside and dumps heat inside.

    More efficient than radiators (which are always 100% efficient) because of a loophole in the laws of thermodynamics.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Though most heat pumps are also air-conditioners. All it takes is a 4 way refrigerant redirection valve manifold. Heat pumps don’t just advertise it as headliner, since the main point is energy savings in the heating. One doesn’t get energy savings in the cooling. When switched to cooling, its just an air-conditioner. Same old power hungry airconditioner.

      Heat pumps just list in the side sentence “oh you can also run this heat pump in cooling mode in addition to heating mode. Note: the inefficient energy use, when being run in cooling mode.”