You can’t fool Father Physics.
The energy charges from Nova Scotia Power total $1,591.37 for the period spanning Dec. 13 to Feb. 14. That’s not including taxes or the additional $773.32 he still owes from his previous bill.
Feaver said he’s on the brink of being disconnected, which has left him looking for a second job.
“It will be a job for Nova Scotia Power and then a job to live,” he said.
The 26-year-old rents a two-bedroom apartment in Bridgewater, N.S., with his girlfriend, their dog, two cats and pet snake. Their unit is on the top floor of an older home with a heat pump. They moved in last April.[…]
A rate increase of 6.5 per cent came into effect on Jan. 1, but customers are questioning why their bills jumped much higher.
Danielle Fraser of Westville, N.S., said her energy costs tripled. According to her bill, she used 4,268 kilowatts in January compared to 1,832 kilowatts in November.
She said no one at the utility can tell her why she’s drawing more electricity when her habits haven’t changed. She runs three heat pumps in her home and said she has them cleaned regularly.
Anyone with a pet snake doesn’t get my pity.
Nobody in Nova Scotia gets my pity. Harper went to the wall for Halifax Shipyard to get the contract to build the Canadian Navy’s new ships. In the next election Nova Scotia went completely liberal. It took awhile but karma eventually came for them.
Anyone with a heat pump doesn’t get my pity.
How big is this snake? Heat lamp and florescent light should only be 100w or so.
And the other lady- 4200 kwh? That’s burning something like 5,800w 24/7.
She’s has a massive weed farm, a mansion, or is leaving every window open.
Heat pump= electrical heating. When the grid is on the verge of breaking we are going to heat our homes and drive our cars electrically, tripling or quadrupling consumption – all without fossil fuels. Why do we keep voting for effing morons?
They’ll be rich, powerful and miserable and you’ll be poor, homeless and happy, and very cold, content in misery; collectivism has dealt you many blows, you can take it. If it doesn’t kill you, big government will make you stronger. And … BTW, Justin’s doing a good job, he means well so his selfish failures are just disinformation.
scar, that is what morons do.
The govt of Bananada is at war w the citizens of the post-nation and “winning” which means losing the country. It was a good run but a fake nation is a fake nation and this is a fake nation.
Heat pumps work fine, but getting taxpayers to buy them for people is sheer idiocy.
Something about idiots voting Liberal and then complaining about the high cost of living.
If you’re going to heat your home electrically you’re much better off using baseboard heating. Heat pumps are virtually useless in Canadian winters. They make passable air conditioners in the summer though if you get the right kind.
Completely false. See my explanation further down.
See my rebuttal below that.
I usually consult my federal election map with stories like these. Yup, checks out.
The only winners have been the Indians and the Quebecois.
Canary in the coal mine. (coal! Ha-ha! Get it?)
Heat pumps work but not when it’s -40C.
Any time it gets below -7C, Heat pumps become remarkably inefficient, and draw more energy to maintain the same temperature. After living one winter here in the rural farmland of SK, I can tell you that I will never install a heat pump in this house. You can’t pay me enough, Turd-for-brains.
Side note: Here we are almost in mid-March, and the temp outside is -12C!!! In MID-MARCH! …in broad daylight and brilliant sunshine! I knew SK winters were cold, but I didn’t think they were THIS LONG…
Those folks in NS are in for a rude awakening when they figure out why their energy bills are so damn high. Well guys… you only have one person to blame, and that’s the turd in Ottawa… (well, actually, you have yourselves to blame for not doing your own research, and buying the bill of goods from Turd-for-brains.)
Rant ends.
When you mandate the retooling of the energy and transportation sectors of an economy based on the rantings of death-cult NGOs now in power thanks to the voting Eloi, this is what you get. Green theocracy means energy poverty and death. It’s central planning by the illiterate and innumerate – failure on failure or, success, if you want to eliminate humanity.
Roulette – a game of chance for people who can’t do math.
Heat Pump – a method of heating a home for people who can’t do physics.
A heat pump compresses a gas from an outdoors evaporator into a liquid, making it hotter, extracts the heat and heats the house, then sends the liquid outside of the house and evaporates it, making the now-gas colder than the outside air so it can absorb whatever heat is available, and repeat. The amount of energy available and the rate at which it is absorbed is directly related to the difference between the air temperature and the evaporated gas temperature. As the outside temperature drops, less heat is collected and run time increases until the secret resistance heater starts and the power meter spins faster.
And it requires some method to keep atmospheric water from condensing/freezing on the evaporator. Just like defrost mode in your freezer section.
The greater the need for heat, the less heat is available.
Meanwhile, a gigajoule from carbon fuel is always the same no matter what the time of year.
I’ve tried explaining this to Canadian heat pump fans online. Anytime you run into a fanboy for anything alternative, be it Tesla/electric vehicles, solar energy, heat pumps, there is no taking sense to them. They either lie or obfuscate.
Seems like they all got “Heat Pumped!”
…something about sympathy…
What is it with all these retards who say heat pumps don’t work? Most of them are fine down to -15C, some down to -20C.
You get more energy of heat than what you take from the grid.
You guys can’t do math.
How comforting.
Their electricity bills beg to differ.
Still less than what you’d pay with straight resistive heating.
The ignorance on heat pumps here is beyond astounding. Most heat pumps work to around -30. At that temperature the power required is equal to any type of electrical resistance type heating (baseboard or furnace) for x amount of heat. As you get warmer it gets to as good as 4:1 or even 5:1. You get 4x the heat of electric heat for the same amount of power. This is simple physics.
Higher electricity costs per kwh means more savings. If electricity costs are really low, then the upfront cost of a heat pump isn’t justified.
As you get colder not only do you need more heat but the heat you get isn’t as efficient. Thats why a bill during a mild month will be a fraction of the coldest months. The swing will be greater than just baseboard heat. Again, simple physics.
What also doesn’t make sense is comparing bills without a long history and just blaming the heat pump.
I agree it’s simple physics, accent on the simple. I know two people who have heat pumps installed. Neither use them for heating and even go so far as covering the outside unit in the Fall. There’s a lot of information on the internet explaining they should not be used as a primary heat source for winter in colder climates. I think I’ll go with the general consensus
on this.
“Higher electricity costs per kwh means more savings. If electricity costs are really low, then the upfront cost of a heat pump isn’t justified.”
And where would that be, Allan? Where in Canada are electricity costs “really low”?
Bottom line: if it gets really cold or really warm where you live (or both), either don’t bother with a expense of a heat pump or have a backup *natural gas* heating system or AC installed (or both). Heat pumps work best in moderate climates, unless drastically oversized (with the resultant large price tag).
Allan S, YOU’RE the one not doing the math or physics.
In a city or town, you have streets and avenues full of houses. When the weather gets cold, the wind stops, because most cold days are under high-pressure atmospheric systems. The wind turbines stop, too. No power from them.
So everyone in your neighborhood gets a heat pump. The heat pump takes in outside air and uses it to heat the refrigerant that give up its heat to the inside of the house. The result is that the outside air that had its heat extracted is now much colder. It gets colder around every house on every street, and the heat pumps are struggling to extract air that is now ten or 20 degrees colder than it is outside of town. The whole town gets colder.
There is only so much heat available, and once it’s extracted, it doesn’t automatically replenish itself. The wind has to come up and move that chilled air along to someplace else, replacing it with warmer air. But the wind that comes up is coming up because the air mass is warming anyway, as the high moves out of the area.
Heat pumps are about as smart as trying to sell ice to the Inuit.
Heat pumps are sized by heat loss calculations for the building envelope, generally to 80% of the annual heating load or thereabouts. That means on the days when it is too cold for the heat pump to keep up with heat loss, an electrical element make-up heater comes on in the airflow. This is roughly equivalent to having a stove element on. It draws more current than the heat pump itself and doubles the load for however long it has to be on.
Heat pumps are only cost effective when electricity is cheap and plentiful. This government has done everything in its power to make electricity expensive and unreliable, and to force adoption of inefficient and costly technologies like electric cars. The consequences are a simple matter of physics and economics, two disciplines of which progressives know less than nothing.
Heat pumps , bird blenders , solar panels , EV transportation ( cars ,trucks and buses) in tandem with eradicating ICE s , wood stoves and the like is a disaster in waiting . There is plenty of evidence to suggest that the course we are on is complete insanity but they will not listen . The only answer is at the ballot box but do we have the political leadership to alter course.
heard about heat pumps waaaaaaay back.
my instincts told me there were limiting factors that limited their applicability in situations.
so l never got one.
lm on equal billing an max efficiency gas.
$65 month in a house l learned was built in 1880
but which allowed me to add gobs of insulation all over the place.
thus even if heat pump is in fact more efficient still not economical
You got a heat pump, but all I got was a tampon.
All these government idiots don’t know a thing about physics and refrigeration. A Heat Pump is a great way to heat and cool in temperate climates. As soon as the temperature drops below 0C they are less efficient than gas, there isn’t much heat in air below freezing. When it gets much colder the heat pump uses “Emergency Heat”, which is either a gas heater but most likely now it is an electric resistance heater in the duct. So in Canada in the winter they are basically useless. So you have all these home owners who have been sold a bill of goods by our illustrious leaders and now reality has come home to roost.
All the comments above that say heat pumps don’t work in Canada have no clue what they are talking about. To get maximum efficiency with a heat pump the duct work needs to be optimum and heat loss calculations have to be performed. Heat pumps work with air movement so maximum amount of return ducts and more heat vents are needed. You can’t just install a heat pump to replace a natural gas furnace as efficiency will be reduced. Also you have to install a cold climate heat pump, mine is good to -25C before the heat strip kicks in. I haven’t had that kick in at all this winter. I have a 1650 sq ft bungalow and in January I used 1200 kw. I also don’t have natural gas so my options were limited as propane heat would have been very expensive.
Juthtin says there is a price on pollution.
There also seems to be a price on stupid.
I use wood. I live in a rural area where wood is cheap. I can’t get natural gas. I use an electric furnace as a back up.
I suggest you move to a non white area because crazy high hydro bills has to be racist.. :)..
When you get a heat pump and its minus 40, you get to watch each other turn The Color Purple.
Back in the 90’s, I lived in Maryland which gets oppressively hot in the summers and drops to below freezing mid-winter. Nearly everybody had heat pumps. Nearly everybody used portable Kerosine heaters or wood stoves to provide additional heat in the winter. Gas stations had designated Kerosine pumps with a steady stream of people and their blue jerry cans.