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This just isn't accurate though, you're using a definition of heat pump that's personal rather than shared.

Here let me prove it: https://www.carrier.com/residential/en/us/products/heat-pump...

If you're going to insist that air source heat pumps don't exist then yes, heat pumps are very expensive. They do however, and especially in non-Scandinavian Europe, they will work fine.




> This just isn't accurate though, you're using a definition of heat pump that's personal rather than shared.

TBH, that is the definition of heat pump that I grew up with. When people say heat pumps, I immediately think of ground source heat pumps.


Well then, I take it back that it isn't a shared definition in that sense.

But it's a pity, because the air source ones are basically AC units which can also run backward to heat your home, and if more people knew that, they'd install them.




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