Except that it has almost no info about _how_ heat pumps work at a mechanical or physics level. It’s just pretty pictures saying that they move heat one way or the other. Great if that’s what you’re looking for! But not packed with info.
Its rubbish , it doesn't explain latent heat or the step changes in energy release - like when ice thaws it pulls in energy to change to liquid , and same when boiling to steam, when a compressed liquid turns to vapour its really cold etc -
GREAT video! Very client-facing friendly, easy and simple to understand, SHORT, and your intonation, enthusiasm, and the animations hold full attention. Thank you so much!
Outside when cold contains a certain amount of heat? I see a lot of people confused about this. They're using a more formal definition of heat here, which is a transfer of energy. Unless something is absolute 0 degrees (-270c) it contains a certain amount of energy. By using the ~cool~ relationship between pressure and temperature, we can cool down a fluid to below the outside temperature and gain some of that energy. Or, get heat from it. Then reverse that process and end up with a higher temperature than we started from because we took energy from the outside. Talk to a qualified supplier if you're worried about it being too cold in your neck of the woods.
Rapidly compressing gas into a liquid creates heat, Rapidly expanding gas creates cold. The fan on the outside unit is pushing air across the coil that has the undesired hot or cold to help regulate the temperature in the line.
Is there only one vent indoors? How does it affect other rooms at the other end of the house. If my bedroom is 80 F. and the heat pump vent is in the front of my house, how does the bedroom get cooled in the summer? Also what happens if we have two floors? Do we need a separate unit for each floor? Reason I ask is because my old fashioned window AC unit doesn't do much for other rooms.
Wondering about the same thing. The heat pump would continue running until it couldn't anymore around -7 in Ottawa, then it switched to auxiliary. My solution was to permanently switch to auxiliary (furnace) that runs on gas, then watched my electricity bill went down the next month, ha..ha!
It depends on their COP (coefficient of performance). A COP of three - meaning you get three times the heating or cooling for every amount of electrical energy it consumes - is a typical value for modern heat pumps, although the COPs are rising as the technologies improve.
you're not so stick with an efficient well maintained woodstove and natural gas energy efficient furnace backup. Nothing can compete with wood on those snowy cold winter days.
But as soon as we need heating, isn't it better to just switch to the auxiliary (furnace), because the lattter runs on gas which rate is cheaper. Otherwise, yes I'll be reducing carbon foot print, but I'll be paying Hundred $$ more due to expensive Hydro rate. Either I misunderstood, or it was hidden in your presentation. Appreciate some precision.
They say heat pumps don't generate heat, but then explain how they use a compressor to raise the temperature. Maybe we have different definitions of "generate" here
I do not think this set up would work for a lot of Canadian homes. And it’s only for one room. Most insurance companies in Canada would not allow that as a primary heat source. I could be wrong ……. If I am get back to me.
notice he said it's not cheaper than a normal gas boiler. ps. Why do people say it is hard and only works with underground pipes instead of just the vertical ones.
My question is can the heat pump be installed within the house to capture heat at 60 degrees, instead of outside ,where the efficiency drops with temps below 20 degrees, It could still be vented with a louver.
Too noisy, thats why they are outside, they could always have a duct to pull in the outside air but they dont. My neighbour has one and it is loud and its fairly new
People, please do some actual research into this before you make the decision of buying one or two or three. Heat pumps work best between 10*C and 30*C; once you start nearing 3*C they become less and less efficient. Once you surpass -6*C they become pretty much useless and you need to start using supplemental heating ie: space heaters throughout your home. Not to mention, the heat pumps themselves start to ice up and have to run their own defrost cycle to clear the ice away from its metal fins and then start working again. There are a couple of heat pumps out there which can operate to as low as -15*C (still not at all close to the -30*C temperature we just saw) but even these can only provide enough heat for up to about 400 to 600 square feet of living space. So are heat pumps more efficient and carbon neutral, yes, but only between 10*C and 30*C. The other consideration is that generally heat pumps, like the video shows, has a wall mounted unit which is in only one room of your house therefore, you would need separate units in several rooms of your house with refrigerant lines running all over the place to the outside. There are heat pumps which can be retrofitted to work in a ducted house which previously had a natural gas furnace however, these are less efficient and require a large amount of retrofitting to be able to move enough volume of air. Ducts are the size they are because of pressure and the volume of air you needed to move through them based on the location of your furnace and the size of the home being heated. So, to retrofit this design with a different system which it wasn't initially intended for isn't simple and costs more money and additional electric fans are needed to move the air through the duct system. I know the Federal Government is pushing for heat pumps and willing to give a rebate for them but they just don't work entirely in our climate in Canada and yes, I know Vancouver and area doesn't get as cold but even around 0*C the heat pump is working near its capable limit which isn't easy on the unit to run at all winter long. That would be like driving your car around in first gear everywhere. Can your car do it, yes, but it isn't designed to maintain this situation for long periods of time. I like the thought of being more carbon neutral but heat pumps aren't for our Canadian climates.
Tetrafluoroethane has a relatively low latent heat of vaporisation and low boiling point (-26.3°C). Latent heat so low and you can extract thermal energy from a very low temperature. Does this answer your concern?
@Ziad Helou as someone who install heatpumps buddies right anything below 0 heat pumps are useless. They run constantly and never adequately heat the home. Not to mention having a heatpump running constantly costs a fortune. Get ready for 500 a month hydro bills!
This is really only a problem for a certain, tho very common, type of heat pump. Heat pumps for colder climates do exist and do work just fine. Definitely know your climate and talk to a qualified retailer before making a purchase. Please don't throw out the idea of using a heat pump just because it gets below 0.
@BC Hydro So If I have a heat pump and i turn the heat on... am I circulating fresh air from outside into my place along with the heat thats being pumped into my home? And if its the ac only sucks air out of the house... no fresh air is being circulated inside right? Im asking because i've had to seal off every single vent door and window in my place because of 24/7 nasty smelling skunk smoking neighbors and want to know when i turn on the heat is that a way that fresh air gets into my place without having to open the windows?
The HSPF at your climate zone is a more reliable figure to start from. I doubt if the equivalent cop (basically a seasonal heating COP) will be above 2.5 in Southern Canada.
BC Hydro is completely Vancouver/Victoria centric. So many people who have installed heat pumps here in NE BC need to run secondary heat when it gets cold during a time we call...winter. Nobody except greenie Vancouver transplants install the few units that do get sold here.
Yeah you need more than one heat source. Here in New Brunswick almost the vast majority of houses have heat pumps. They will drastically lower heat bills.
You should always have a secure backup method of heat with a heat pump, unless yours is exceedingly well designed and implemented. You also can still use heat pumps effectively in the north. Offsetting heating and cooling power is still an offset, even if it's not 100 percent you are still saving money. Now, I don't know how bad it is up in the northeast of BC but heat pumps are viable over in the NT so... Just saying.
OMG The heat pump does create HEAT... How when you compress a gas YOu create HEAT... Use that heat to heat the home then dump the energy by decompressing and allow the liquified gas now vaporize... By expelling it outside the COLD you do not want. The new new gas free of energy can be Re compressed. To chill a home in summer we compress the gas and dump the heat OUT SIDE. then the liquefied gas that is cooled get decompressed and gets supper cold that cold liquid now sucks the heat in the home.... The gas is now deenergized and back to normal gas. Goes back to the compressor to compress the gas again. Formula for Creating heat when compressing gas. Boyle's Law: PV = k.
Compared to what? It also depends on what your local electric provider charges or how you power the pump. One of my houses is both solar and hooked to the grid, so it's not costing anything, depending how much electricity I'm producing.
I see so if its -25 outside the coolant warms the air up to 5 degrees making it warmer than outside?...with a good collection of wool sweaters and gloves along with a good down jacket you've got it MAiD! Even the Eskimos can get their Igloos to about 1 degree inside away from the biting -40 weather...if Canadians would just use Igloos like Guilbault and Trudeau would like we could get to Net Zero in no time like the Eskimos then we would save the planet with renewable energy....and we could easily handle any harsh Canadian Winter! However, I don't think our $12k/month Grocery Bill Prime Minister would adopt that kind of lifestyle that's just for the folks who will own nothing, eat crickets, and be happy!
It's a lot more efficient to natural gas or oil. Even at below freezing temperatures. I know because I've working on them for 20 years. Even the latest heat pumps can produce heat from -25 degrees. A ground to water heatpump would be the ideal setup. Too many people talk negatively about them when they really don't understand. Each heating system is bespoke and if designed incorrectly then it will never operate properly
@@shaneoneill1949 until you have a power failure due to an ice storm and you lose power for 2 weeks........i'll just turn my gas stove burners on to keep warm and make me a cup of coffee and make me an omelet
@@joseviana2112 That's a great option to have, if you live in an area that has storms like that then a back up generator would be ideal. Apart of my job is comparing the efficiency of all heating systems, whether the heat is taken from the air, water or the ground it is always more efficient then gas or oil.
Natural gas dosent tie your indoor temperature to an electrical grid. There by reducing your effect to climate change temperature regulations by the government in the future.
just remember this: you are the carbon they want to eliminate. simply put; heat pump is the same as a window fitted air conditioning unit. compressing or evaporating refrigerant to heat or cool a coil. one side blows cool air, the other warm air depending on which way the refrigerant is flowing.. heat pump same concept.
In winter, even before reaching 32F, they barely work. When it comes to providing much needed warm, they are like a kid shoe compared to 11-sized boots, the fossil fueled heaters.
"Upcoming Refrigerant Changes: How the R-454B (Puron Advance) Transition Affects You To satisfy industry regulations, the HVAC industry is transitioning from Puron (R-410A) refrigerant to Puron Advance (R-454B) by the year 2023. We talk about the implications for homeowners." -- It's SOOO great when you all decide to just copy and paste talking point with zero understanding of how anything works. 🙄🙄🙄🙄.... so, you're gonna fix global warming by going from one pollutant to another, right? Wow. Just, wow.
Soooooo going to electric instead of what you call fossil fuels is a comparison with shoe size how abouts you show us some actual data. Let’s see some actual numbers here.
And they are as noisy as heck, can you imagine when everyone on the block has them running! With all these electric heatpumps and EV this will put another strain on the electrical grid...heat pumps are not the answer.
I was hesitant to try one because of negative stories but moved into a house with one. It exceeded my expectations. I’m in the mid-Atlantic though. It might be region-dependent!
"It's an environmentally friendly option *especially* here in BC where we're powered by water". This statement is illogical. The difference in environmental impact would be *greater* in places where they use *less* environmentally friendly power sources. So in BC where we use *more* environmentally friendly power sources the saving to the environment would be *smaller*.
..no, they're comparing gas, oil CO2 vs Hydro electricity powered heat pump, not resistive heating. If the electricity is pure coal, switching from gas to pure-coal electric is near pointless, switching from gas to pure hydro electric would be a 100% CO2 saving,
you forgot to say how they cannot appropriately heat the domestic water supply and require an immersion "hidden" in the LARGE water tank to compensate? massively increasing electricity bills and that the heat pump increases electricity usage annually by anywhere between 20% and 45% (depending upon the annual climate of homes location)? or that they are next to useless on any property built before 1930's due to wall construction?
Ah, I see another "expert" leaning into confirmation bias. If you have an Air 2 Water R290 heat pump then the immersion isn't required, as it can do 75C without it. R744 can do 90C. R32 and R410a can do up to around 55C without the immersion. And nearly all will raise the temperature to the max with the heat pump, and then do the rest with the immersion if required - which for some - depending on tank turnover, will be a once a week cycle for anti-legionella. Heat Pumps don't increase electricity usage (unless you mean vs a fossil fuel system, if you're not taking into consideration the reduction in fossil fuel burning). As vs any electrical system, they will always use less electricity to provide the same amount of heat. My property was built in the 1920s. Have 3 Air to Air heat pumps, with one that also does DHW.
Why not to have an heat pump this is from the BRE to explain why EPCs downgrade if you have them fitted “the reason that the heat demand may increase with a heat pump compared to an oil boiler, is that heat pumps … may need to be run for longer hours to give sufficient heat output over a 24 hour period and to avoid very long warm up times. Running longer hours…. would result in higher mean internal temperature. Consequently, the total heat losses would be higher, so the energy requirement would be higher” 4
The heat loss is proportional to temperature. If the set point is 21C with the heat pump, then I don't see why the total heat loss with an inverting heat pump would be greater than with a single stage gas furnace that goes on at at 20.5C and off at 21.5C. The average temperature is still the same and held within very narrow limits. It does mean that the heat pump will run longer, continuously modulating in the ideal case.
I knew these things were b***s***! ‘Even when the air is cold, it’s still hot!’ WTF😂 Basically they are weak heaters that are more energy efficient because they don’t provide much heat😂
Everything by default is -273C degrees. (absolute zero). If something is -200C, something (like the sun) has heaten it up by 70 degrees C! If it is -20C outside, the sun has heaten the air more than 250 celsius (from -273->-20C) So yes, there is a lot of heat energy even in cold air.
This uses electricity to operate ,electricity mostly comes from burning fossil fuels , so how is it carbon neutral?? This device is made for rich people in the west to spend their money . Imagine how much carbon footprint is in just making that heat pump too😂
Hey Einstein, most electricity (which is what heat pumps run on/are powered by) is generated by burning coal and natural gas. Not solar or whatever else magical means you think is powering everything. 😉. If the Left actually cared about fixing the fossil fuel problem then you’d embrace nuclear. DUH
the heat produced by these is very poor, noisy things that lose efficiency within a few years{ not even that efficient from new} trying to sell the electric dream .
not sure you're right about that. I have one that's still fine 10 years later. It's the cooling that is especially great. The newer models have quieter fans.... and other modes. It doesnt have to be on all the time.
@@halfalligator6518 By any chance are you trying to sell something.here in the U.K. we don’t use them in the summer and it is recommended that ounce installed leave it on,they read a different book from you
Why is very cold air getting blown over the coil why is it not enclosed recirculate the heat in winter it won’t catch fire explain that to me on the Shetland Isle there are no trees to hug so sad it is
@@halfalligator6518 Gas Combi turn it on turn it off no need to go school Heat Pump go to university and you still won’t get what it says on the tin,if it takes the heat out of the cold air why not heat the air it just doesn’t add up.had my heat pump over 2 year it’s costing a fortune and I have the bills to prove it.Cheers
Gah thank you for not having a long elaborate intro to get through! 🌟
Short, simple, packed with info which can be easily absorbed… DEFINITELY the best video on this topic on the entire platform. Thank you
Except that it has almost no info about _how_ heat pumps work at a mechanical or physics level. It’s just pretty pictures saying that they move heat one way or the other. Great if that’s what you’re looking for! But not packed with info.
There are three or four other videos out there on this subject, but this is the best. Well done.
Its rubbish , it doesn't explain latent heat or the step changes in energy release - like when ice thaws it pulls in energy to change to liquid , and same when boiling to steam, when a compressed liquid turns to vapour its really cold etc -
winner, informative, no filler -- thank you for great content
Nice explanation short and understandable.
Do research outside of this, of course the electricity provider wants you to use more electricity.
GREAT video! Very client-facing friendly, easy and simple to understand, SHORT, and your intonation, enthusiasm, and the animations hold full attention. Thank you so much!
Outside when cold contains a certain amount of heat?
I see a lot of people confused about this. They're using a more formal definition of heat here, which is a transfer of energy. Unless something is absolute 0 degrees (-270c) it contains a certain amount of energy. By using the ~cool~ relationship between pressure and temperature, we can cool down a fluid to below the outside temperature and gain some of that energy. Or, get heat from it. Then reverse that process and end up with a higher temperature than we started from because we took energy from the outside.
Talk to a qualified supplier if you're worried about it being too cold in your neck of the woods.
Rapidly compressing gas into a liquid creates heat, Rapidly expanding gas creates cold. The fan on the outside unit is pushing air across the coil that has the undesired hot or cold to help regulate the temperature in the line.
Great explanation in a quick and easy-to-understand way. Well done.
I've always known heat pumps to be crap. The reversing valves were always problematic.... ty
Thanks so much!
It's minus 30 here today lol. No way this is heating my entire house. Manitoba is so cold man.
Simplest video thanks
Nicely explained...
thanks dave - really helpful.
But don't get rid of you woodburner.
Is there only one vent indoors? How does it affect other rooms at the other end of the house. If my bedroom is 80 F. and the heat pump vent is in the front of my house, how does the bedroom get cooled in the summer? Also what happens if we have two floors? Do we need a separate unit for each floor? Reason I ask is because my old fashioned window AC unit doesn't do much for other rooms.
In the winter it "pulls heat from the outside air " into your home. In Ontario at -30, what heat?
Wondering about the same thing. The heat pump would continue running until it couldn't anymore around -7 in Ottawa, then it switched to auxiliary. My solution was to permanently switch to auxiliary (furnace) that runs on gas, then watched my electricity bill went down the next month, ha..ha!
very nice video!
need more of these amazingly easy to understand videos
That's fucking sick, great animation too, thanks!
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And that totally calls for swearing...
More efficient than oil central heating?
Thank you so much
Thank you
Thank you bro
How much heat do you get out of minus25 to minus 30 c degrees?
at 35F, my heat pump blows ~58F air inside. Further bellow I had to turn it off and use a propane furnace.
They do not work! 😜
How much power do they use? Would the heating cost more than gas forced air heating?
It depends on their COP (coefficient of performance). A COP of three - meaning you get three times the heating or cooling for every amount of electrical energy it consumes - is a typical value for modern heat pumps, although the COPs are rising as the technologies improve.
Yes much much more. I install furnaces and heat pumps and yes heat pumps cost far more to run.
@@bcc1428 relatively speaking, or absolutely? The environmental and health costs of gas aren't cheap either...
@David Pedersen if you think all electricity comes from sustainable means then you need to do some research guy.
@@bcc1428 oh trust me, I stopped falling for that myth a LONG time ago...
what if you already have gas, how are you saving money...especially when the temps drop to -20c and colder....
you're not so stick with an efficient well maintained woodstove and natural gas energy efficient furnace backup. Nothing can compete with wood on those snowy cold winter days.
But as soon as we need heating, isn't it better to just switch to the auxiliary (furnace), because the lattter runs on gas which rate is cheaper. Otherwise, yes I'll be reducing carbon foot print, but I'll be paying Hundred $$ more due to expensive Hydro rate. Either I misunderstood, or it was hidden in your presentation. Appreciate some precision.
Misleading Ad. Size 18 to size 2
How you gonna install these on terraced houses?
They say heat pumps don't generate heat, but then explain how they use a compressor to raise the temperature. Maybe we have different definitions of "generate" here
I do not think this set up would work for a lot of Canadian homes. And it’s only for one room. Most insurance companies in Canada would not allow that as a primary heat source. I could be wrong ……. If I am get back to me.
Can Heat Pump be used in a apartment?
Yes, it's called an AC with an indoor and outdoor unit...
notice he said it's not cheaper than a normal gas boiler.
ps. Why do people say it is hard and only works with underground pipes instead of just the vertical ones.
My question is can the heat pump be installed within the house to capture heat at 60 degrees, instead of outside ,where the efficiency drops with temps below 20 degrees, It could still be vented with a louver.
Theoretically yes however I've never seen done. The room you aren't cooling would get extremely warm and vice versa
If you mean to capture heat from the room and then heat the same room it is like you have an open refrigerator in your room with no efficiency at all
Too noisy, thats why they are outside, they could always have a duct to pull in the outside air but they dont. My neighbour has one and it is loud and its fairly new
The house would become colder because the other end is basically AC
People, please do some actual research into this before you make the decision of buying one or two or three. Heat pumps work best between 10*C and 30*C; once you start nearing 3*C they become less and less efficient. Once you surpass -6*C they become pretty much useless and you need to start using supplemental heating ie: space heaters throughout your home. Not to mention, the heat pumps themselves start to ice up and have to run their own defrost cycle to clear the ice away from its metal fins and then start working again. There are a couple of heat pumps out there which can operate to as low as -15*C (still not at all close to the -30*C temperature we just saw) but even these can only provide enough heat for up to about 400 to 600 square feet of living space. So are heat pumps more efficient and carbon neutral, yes, but only between 10*C and 30*C. The other consideration is that generally heat pumps, like the video shows, has a wall mounted unit which is in only one room of your house therefore, you would need separate units in several rooms of your house with refrigerant lines running all over the place to the outside. There are heat pumps which can be retrofitted to work in a ducted house which previously had a natural gas furnace however, these are less efficient and require a large amount of retrofitting to be able to move enough volume of air. Ducts are the size they are because of pressure and the volume of air you needed to move through them based on the location of your furnace and the size of the home being heated. So, to retrofit this design with a different system which it wasn't initially intended for isn't simple and costs more money and additional electric fans are needed to move the air through the duct system. I know the Federal Government is pushing for heat pumps and willing to give a rebate for them but they just don't work entirely in our climate in Canada and yes, I know Vancouver and area doesn't get as cold but even around 0*C the heat pump is working near its capable limit which isn't easy on the unit to run at all winter long. That would be like driving your car around in first gear everywhere. Can your car do it, yes, but it isn't designed to maintain this situation for long periods of time. I like the thought of being more carbon neutral but heat pumps aren't for our Canadian climates.
Tetrafluoroethane has a relatively low latent heat of vaporisation and low boiling point (-26.3°C). Latent heat so low and you can extract thermal energy from a very low temperature. Does this answer your concern?
@Ziad Helou as someone who install heatpumps buddies right anything below 0 heat pumps are useless. They run constantly and never adequately heat the home. Not to mention having a heatpump running constantly costs a fortune. Get ready for 500 a month hydro bills!
This is really only a problem for a certain, tho very common, type of heat pump. Heat pumps for colder climates do exist and do work just fine. Definitely know your climate and talk to a qualified retailer before making a purchase.
Please don't throw out the idea of using a heat pump just because it gets below 0.
Thanks - my husband just said the exact same thing essentially prior to me finding your comment 😅✊
I guess BC is a little more suitable than Manitoba
One thing to always remember, there really isn’t such a thing as cold, it is just lack of heat.
it heats the top half of each room, cool.
The fan causes the air to mix, so you don't get the stratification effect.
@BC Hydro So If I have a heat pump and i turn the heat on... am I circulating fresh air from outside into my place along with the heat thats being pumped into my home? And if its the ac only sucks air out of the house... no fresh air is being circulated inside right? Im asking because i've had to seal off every single vent door and window in my place because of 24/7 nasty smelling skunk smoking neighbors and want to know when i turn on the heat is that a way that fresh air gets into my place without having to open the windows?
No. You are circulating heat from/to outside. That heat is stored in refrigerant, which merely circulates it.
So heat pumps only reduce carbon not eliminate them?
Dave! There are heat pumps with COPs up to 5 not just 3! Even more savings of $$ and CO2.
The HSPF at your climate zone is a more reliable figure to start from. I doubt if the equivalent cop (basically a seasonal heating COP) will be above 2.5 in Southern Canada.
@@gregorymalchuk272 Howdy! Definitely depends where in Canada and the unit of heat pump. :)
Isn’t this just a regular double function AC that has been used in Asia for like 30 years…?
Sorry I'm sticking with gas for heating and cooking and an ice car for driving. I'll wait until all the bugs are sorted out before I'll consider
BC Hydro is completely Vancouver/Victoria centric. So many people who have installed heat pumps here in NE BC need to run secondary heat when it gets cold during a time we call...winter. Nobody except greenie Vancouver transplants install the few units that do get sold here.
Yeah you need more than one heat source. Here in New Brunswick almost the vast majority of houses have heat pumps. They will drastically lower heat bills.
It sounds like they are undersizing the systems relative to your climate zone.
You should always have a secure backup method of heat with a heat pump, unless yours is exceedingly well designed and implemented.
You also can still use heat pumps effectively in the north. Offsetting heating and cooling power is still an offset, even if it's not 100 percent you are still saving money. Now, I don't know how bad it is up in the northeast of BC but heat pumps are viable over in the NT so... Just saying.
OMG The heat pump does create HEAT... How when you compress a gas YOu create HEAT... Use that heat to heat the home then dump the energy by decompressing and allow the liquified gas now vaporize... By expelling it outside the COLD you do not want.
The new new gas free of energy can be Re compressed.
To chill a home in summer we compress the gas and dump the heat OUT SIDE. then the liquefied gas that is cooled get decompressed and gets supper cold that cold liquid now sucks the heat in the home.... The gas is now deenergized and back to normal gas. Goes back to the compressor to compress the gas again.
Formula for Creating heat when compressing gas. Boyle's Law: PV = k.
Do heat pumps blow dust around like a traditional furnace?
But it costs a lot in electricity to run that pump
Compared to what? It also depends on what your local electric provider charges or how you power the pump. One of my houses is both solar and hooked to the grid, so it's not costing anything, depending how much electricity I'm producing.
Glorified dehumidifier
Now with a hole in your wall cold air gets into your house in winter if you do not turn on heater.
People in us called split ac heat pump!! Why is that.
yeah so how the effects of refrigerant on the atmosphere??
Refrigerant is in a closed system and reclaimed when serviced, replaced or decommissioned.
@@DeathAngelHRA yeah but most systems leak some refrigerant through evaporation, or breakdown when the compressor breaks down
I see so if its -25 outside the coolant warms the air up to 5 degrees making it warmer than outside?...with a good collection of wool sweaters and gloves along with a good down jacket you've got it MAiD! Even the Eskimos can get their Igloos to about 1 degree inside away from the biting -40 weather...if Canadians would just use Igloos like Guilbault and Trudeau would like we could get to Net Zero in no time like the Eskimos then we would save the planet with renewable energy....and we could easily handle any harsh Canadian Winter! However, I don't think our $12k/month Grocery Bill Prime Minister would adopt that kind of lifestyle that's just for the folks who will own nothing, eat crickets, and be happy!
Don't think very cost effective with the unit at the ceiling. Most heating systems are at the floor. Remember heat rises.
its amazing how he compares it to electric heating.........LOL compare it to natural gas heating or even oil
It's a lot more efficient to natural gas or oil. Even at below freezing temperatures. I know because I've working on them for 20 years. Even the latest heat pumps can produce heat from -25 degrees. A ground to water heatpump would be the ideal setup. Too many people talk negatively about them when they really don't understand. Each heating system is bespoke and if designed incorrectly then it will never operate properly
@@shaneoneill1949 until you have a power failure due to an ice storm and you lose power for 2 weeks........i'll just turn my gas stove burners on to keep warm and make me a cup of coffee and make me an omelet
@@joseviana2112 That's a great option to have, if you live in an area that has storms like that then a back up generator would be ideal. Apart of my job is comparing the efficiency of all heating systems, whether the heat is taken from the air, water or the ground it is always more efficient then gas or oil.
Good video, but that mandatory Stupid happy music I can do without
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BC Hydro pushing systems that run on electricity instead of natural gas, is like KFC advertising that beef is bad for you.
Natural gas dosent tie your indoor temperature to an electrical grid. There by reducing your effect to climate change temperature regulations by the government in the future.
But it cost more in electricity natural gas is cheaper and way better at heating
This is a crap idea that's just gonna make electricity more expensive and give you lower performance and reliability.
just remember this: you are the carbon they want to eliminate.
simply put; heat pump is the same as a window fitted air conditioning unit. compressing or evaporating refrigerant to heat or cool a coil. one side blows cool air, the other warm air depending on which way the refrigerant is flowing.. heat pump same concept.
In winter, even before reaching 32F, they barely work. When it comes to providing much needed warm, they are like a kid shoe compared to 11-sized boots, the fossil fueled heaters.
"Upcoming Refrigerant Changes: How the R-454B (Puron Advance) Transition Affects You
To satisfy industry regulations, the HVAC industry is transitioning from Puron (R-410A) refrigerant to Puron Advance (R-454B) by the year 2023. We talk about the implications for homeowners." -- It's SOOO great when you all decide to just copy and paste talking point with zero understanding of how anything works. 🙄🙄🙄🙄.... so, you're gonna fix global warming by going from one pollutant to another, right? Wow. Just, wow.
I moved from BC to AB and I miss my lower bills.
Could they find a more annoying person to do this ad?
Soooooo going to electric instead of what you call fossil fuels is a comparison with shoe size how abouts you show us some actual data. Let’s see some actual numbers here.
Excellent propaganda!
I would say this is only useful in temperate climates. I'll stick with a gas boiler.
And they are as noisy as heck, can you imagine when everyone on the block has them running! With all these electric heatpumps and EV this will put another strain on the electrical grid...heat pumps are not the answer.
Heat pumps are shite.
Looks hideous and it looks like someone could easily nick it from the wall.
Not to mention if the power goes out your screwed.
Confusing af
Suck the heat from outside.. the weather has been unseasonably cold, this year and last, right up to the middle of June. I see a connection.
Someone told me they are crap and dont work properly a waste of money they say.
I was hesitant to try one because of negative stories but moved into a house with one. It exceeded my expectations. I’m in the mid-Atlantic though. It might be region-dependent!
"It's an environmentally friendly option *especially* here in BC where we're powered by water".
This statement is illogical. The difference in environmental impact would be *greater* in places where they use *less* environmentally friendly power sources. So in BC where we use *more* environmentally friendly power sources the saving to the environment would be *smaller*.
..no, they're comparing gas, oil CO2 vs Hydro electricity powered heat pump, not resistive heating. If the electricity is pure coal, switching from gas to pure-coal electric is near pointless, switching from gas to pure hydro electric would be a 100% CO2 saving,
This is a brief description of what a heat pump does. There's no explanation of how it actually work whatsoever.
If you live in L.A, they're great.
Anywhere else, they're useless.
you forgot to say how they cannot appropriately heat the domestic water supply and require an immersion "hidden" in the LARGE water tank to compensate? massively increasing electricity bills and that the heat pump increases electricity usage annually by anywhere between 20% and 45% (depending upon the annual climate of homes location)? or that they are next to useless on any property built before 1930's due to wall construction?
Ah, I see another "expert" leaning into confirmation bias.
If you have an Air 2 Water R290 heat pump then the immersion isn't required, as it can do 75C without it. R744 can do 90C.
R32 and R410a can do up to around 55C without the immersion. And nearly all will raise the temperature to the max with the heat pump, and then do the rest with the immersion if required - which for some - depending on tank turnover, will be a once a week cycle for anti-legionella.
Heat Pumps don't increase electricity usage (unless you mean vs a fossil fuel system, if you're not taking into consideration the reduction in fossil fuel burning). As vs any electrical system, they will always use less electricity to provide the same amount of heat.
My property was built in the 1920s. Have 3 Air to Air heat pumps, with one that also does DHW.
Why not to have an heat pump this is from the BRE to explain why EPCs downgrade if you have them fitted “the reason that the heat demand may increase with a heat pump compared to an oil boiler, is that heat pumps … may need to be run for longer hours to give sufficient heat output over a 24 hour period and to avoid very long warm up times. Running longer hours…. would result in higher mean internal temperature. Consequently, the total heat losses would be higher, so the energy requirement would be higher” 4
The heat loss is proportional to temperature. If the set point is 21C with the heat pump, then I don't see why the total heat loss with an inverting heat pump would be greater than with a single stage gas furnace that goes on at at 20.5C and off at 21.5C. The average temperature is still the same and held within very narrow limits. It does mean that the heat pump will run longer, continuously modulating in the ideal case.
Cold showers, no thanks
So full of BS!!! =)))
I knew these things were b***s***!
‘Even when the air is cold, it’s still hot!’ WTF😂
Basically they are weak heaters that are more energy efficient because they don’t provide much heat😂
Everything by default is -273C degrees. (absolute zero). If something is -200C, something (like the sun) has heaten it up by 70 degrees C! If it is -20C outside, the sun has heaten the air more than 250 celsius (from -273->-20C) So yes, there is a lot of heat energy even in cold air.
This uses electricity to operate ,electricity mostly comes from burning fossil fuels , so how is it carbon neutral?? This device is made for rich people in the west to spend their money . Imagine how much carbon footprint is in just making that heat pump too😂
Another thing mighty reliant on daddy government ensuring the electricity continues to flow.
You lost me at "fossil fuels" and "carbon footprint" The only thing you missed were the polar ice caps melting.
you explained nothing..
Bull, talking crap.
good video but he is kinda annoying but not too much
So the liberals expect people to heat the whole house with this. I guess he doesn’t know how cold it gets In the winter months.
Americans are like, "Let's bring back coal!". Canadians are like, "We're gonna pull heat from the air!"
Hey Einstein, most electricity (which is what heat pumps run on/are powered by) is generated by burning coal and natural gas. Not solar or whatever else magical means you think is powering everything. 😉. If the Left actually cared about fixing the fossil fuel problem then you’d embrace nuclear. DUH
Are left to rot !!!!! Another business scam
the heat produced by these is very poor, noisy things that lose efficiency within a few years{ not even that efficient from new} trying to sell the electric dream .
not sure you're right about that. I have one that's still fine 10 years later. It's the cooling that is especially great. The newer models have quieter fans.... and other modes. It doesnt have to be on all the time.
@@halfalligator6518 By any chance are you trying to sell something.here in the U.K. we don’t use them in the summer and it is recommended that ounce installed leave it on,they read a different book from you
No Thay are way more expensive how can you make clams like this gas is way cheaper do some research bro.
it is scam
Why don't you ask that volcano going off in La Palma for 1.5 months now to to back off on it's carbon footprint?
Heat pumps are junk. Heating cost are too high.
They are hit or miss. If you buy a cheap one it will be a bad time. The best system is a heat pump with gas furnace backup.
The cost to operate depends on how you power them and what you pay for electricity, if anything.
I totally agree.
Heat pump can save your electric bill ❤
They are a scam 😂
Why is very cold air getting blown over the coil why is it not enclosed recirculate the heat in winter it won’t catch fire explain that to me on the Shetland Isle there are no trees to hug so sad it is
that made no sense at all. I think you need to go to school and learn how the system actually works.
@@halfalligator6518 Gas Combi turn it on turn it off no need to go school Heat Pump go to university and you still won’t get what it says on the tin,if it takes the heat out of the cold air why not heat the air it just doesn’t add up.had my heat pump over 2 year it’s costing a fortune and I have the bills to prove it.Cheers