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

...Heatpumpsare also quite versatile; they can be used toheatincoming air from the outside, or as an air-to-waterheatpump for generating residential hot water.Heatpumpsare also used in conjunction with geothermalheating and cooling, where theheatis either taken from, or added back to the ground.Heatpumpsm...

...heatpumps?Heatpump technologies can be used to transferheatbetween air and water, and in many combinations. • An air sourceheatpump (air-to-airheatpump) movesheatbetween the air outside of a home and the air inside. • A ground sourceheatpump (also known as a geothermalheatpump or a water-to-water h...

...heating system, and this is why it is so crucial to be equipped with a very efficientheating system when making your domestic hot water with aheatpump that drawsheatfrom inside the home. To explain that further - if youheatyour home with an oil furnace, aheatpump waterheater that transfersheatfrom the amb...

...heater that offers you only a 1 to 1 ratio. The Voltex waterheater from AO Smith is an air-to-waterheatpump which extractsheatfrom the air to generate hot water, so in the winter that 3 to 1heating ratio of the firstheatpump is transferred to the waterheater. And the more 'free'heatyou have in winter (sola...

...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...

...heaters for zoneheat但它们经常很吵，需要修理，所以我们决定不需要它们。Related topics to how wellheatpumpswork In LEED or Passive House homes : The benefits of coupling air source and waterheaterheatpumpsComparing ground source (geothermal) and air sourceheatpumps...

...Heatpump electric hot waterheaters, good or bad idea? Waterheaters are generally the biggest energy drain in a home afterheating . so Air-to-waterheatpump waterheaters are potentially a big energy saver, particularly when the mainheatsource in a home is an air sourceheatpump, as the waterheater can in eff...

...Heating the liquid in a hydronic system can be achieved in many ways: Tankless (on demand) waterheaters Combination hot water tank and boiler Combination solar waterheater and boiler GeothermalheatpumpsHydronic radiators and baseboardheaters will transferheatin the same way as electric resistant h...

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

...heat使用恒定的地球内部温度来平衡北美和加拿大急剧变化的地表温度。With the use ofheatpumps, geothermalheating and cooling systems extractheatenergy and transfer it into buildings, saving approximately 50 to 60% onheating and co...

...Heating to Run: Setting the timer to run HPPH around noon helps to lower energy costs . On systems with aHeatPump PoolHeater (HPPH) for 100% of theirheating requirement, the time of day that you run your HPPH is an important consideration asheatpumpsget theirheatfrom the air. Logically then the best time to ...