If you were trying to cool a room like with an air conditioner, yes. Heat pumps literally work in reverse, bringing heat in more efficiently than any resistive heater. They output more heat energy than they use, as they are moving heat, not generating it.
Counterpoint, the only real difference between a heat pump and an air conditioner is the fact that with the former, you can choose which side is the condenser that gives off heat, and which side is the evaporator that absorbs it. With a basic airco, those sides are fixed. Most cheap aircos are more rudimentary heat pumps.
If you were trying to cool a room like with an air conditioner, yes. Heat pumps literally work in reverse, bringing heat in more efficiently than any resistive heater. They output more heat energy than they use, as they are moving heat, not generating it.
They’re not only for heating though, they can cool as well.
I guess I interpreted the comic backward; they’re heating the room not cooling it.
Counterpoint, the only real difference between a heat pump and an air conditioner is the fact that with the former, you can choose which side is the condenser that gives off heat, and which side is the evaporator that absorbs it. With a basic airco, those sides are fixed. Most cheap aircos are more rudimentary heat pumps.