How heat pumps work/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...heaters for zoneheating but they are often noisy and need fixing and we decided they wouldn't be needed. Related topics tohowwellheatpumpsworkIn LEED or Passive House homes : The benefits of coupling air source and waterheaterheatpumpsComparing ground source (geothermal) and air sourceheatpumps...

...heatpumps, but what exactly is it that makesheatpumpsso interesting for residentialheating and cooling applications? Which are the bestheatpumpsfor efficiency and reliability and whichworkbest in cold climates? The advantages ofheatpumpsare quite numerous, let's go through some of them now. What are the ...

...heatsource in a home is an air sourceheatpump, as the waterheater can in effect 'borrow' the efficiency of thatheatpump, which on average is about 3 times more efficient than most otherheatsources. See here for an article onhowheatpumpswork. An air-to-waterheatpump waterheater uses the air in the hous...

...workMembership here . Related topics tohowwellheatpumpsworkIn LEED or Passive House homes : The benefits of coupling air source and waterheaterheatpumpsComparing ground source (geothermal) and air sourceheatpumpsVideo green building guides on the EcoHome YouTube channel

...HeatPumps, and are Ground SourceHeatPumps"Geothermal?" First let's clear up some confusion on terminology regardingheatpumps- search Google for GeothermalHeating Systems and you will find hundreds maybe thousands of companies using the word "Geothermal" to describe ground sourceheatpumps, two systems that h...

...Howmuchheata house needs to keep occupants warm is determined byhowmuch it loses. A solarheater will provide a greater percentage of the requiredheatin a home if thatheatdemand is lower, sohowwell insulated and airtight a house is will be a deciding factor onhowbig the passive solar airheatr needs to be ...

...heating and cooling is to use that consistent interior earth temperature to balance our wildly varying North American & Canadian surface temperatures. With the use ofheatpumps, geothermalheating and cooling systems extractheatenergy and transfer it into buildings, saving approximately 50 to 60% onheating and co...

...howto live a green lifestyle in the country . Find more pages about sustainable construction andhowto reduce carbon emissions on the pages below and in the EcoHome Green Building Guide pages . See LEED and Passive House ready prefab eco homes For Canada and the USHowto design a home for thermal comfort...

...heating bill and figure if it is even possible to recoup the replacement cost of a window through added energy savings from that individual window.Howlong will it take to save $1,600 worth ofheatthrough a better window, and will you even live that long? In most cases it is unlikely that you will be around to see a ...

...HowheatpumpsworkHeatpump waterheaters Ensuring indoor air quality From the EcoHome Green Building Guides

...Heating homes with electricity can be clean and affordable regardless of high electricity rates if your house is well-sealed againstheatloss and if you choose an efficientheating system like aheatpump .Heatpumpscan be up to 3 times cheaper to operate compared to noisy baseboardheaters .Heatpumpsworkdif...