Things That Won’t Change The Weather

6 Replies to “Things That Won’t Change The Weather”

1. Next will be “longhouses” where 10 families can huddle for warmth with their pets and livestock.

2. “Listed” in this case means having a historical designation limiting the owner’s abilities to renovate the centuries-old building.

   Local authorities have all sorts of powers and no skin in the game whatsoever.

3. My wife and I bought our Panasonic heat pump, a top-of-the-line model, for $8,000 Canadian six years ago. Thr L12,000 to L15,000 mentioned in the article seems steep, or am I missing something?

4. A heat pump is little more that 3 motors, a compressor, and a couple of coils. Why do they cost so much? The payback at my place would be longer than the equipment is under warrantee.

   1. WHy don’t you build them and sell them cheap then?

5. Heat pumps are fancy reversing refrigerators. They work great for cooling, but not so great at heating.
   Air source heat pumps are capacity limited by ambient temperature.
   The AC in your car works fine cooling at 75F, and gets worse as the ambient temp rises.
   Imagine having to use the AC in your car to heat the cab when ambient is freezing?
   Some car AC systems will engage cooling to defrost the windshield when high humidity causes fogging on the inside. Otherwise it’s the engine coolant providing heat.
   Our home is from 1912. We have renovated to improve energy use where Enmax now rates it => than high efficient homes. We considered a ground source heat pump. But it would not provide enough heat at -30C.
   Heat pumps may work in a super insulated box, but not what’s historically “built to code of the day”!