I’d never heard of electric heat pumps until he moved south.
I’d constantly lived right up near the Canadian border where the weather is cold plus wet for most of the year.
Both of us heated our condo with a gas furnace plus never bothered with air conditioner. Both of us dealt with sub zero rapidly decreasing temperatures, snow plus blizzard conditions… Snow shovels, ice scrapers, rock salt plus wool coats were necessities. Our current location is overheated plus sunny just about year round. The Winter brings rapidly decreasing temperatures down into the forties, but they don’t last long plus all of us never get snow. The summers are overheated plus humid with rapidly decreasing temperatures that soar into the nineties or even the triple digits. The condo all of us purchased is outfitted with a heat pump. The real estate agent was entirely gleeful by this plus considered it an asset. I researched heat pumps to understand what all of us were buying. I l gained that heat pumps provide both heating plus cooling capacity, then rather than burn fossil fuels to create heat, the system takes luck of existing heat. During the warmer weather, it operates almost exactly like an air conditioner. It uses refrigerant to pull heat out of the condo plus convey it outside. Once all of us switch to heating mode, the system pulls ambient heat out of the outdoor air, compresses it to a higher temperature plus delivers it indoors. The heat pump is lovelyly wash to operate. It minimizes our carbon footprint, keeps running costs low plus provides an especially healthy living space. The system is whisper-quiet, effective at handling excess humidity plus won’t dry out the air while in the winter.