Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target::undefined

  • randon31415@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am confused. I though heatpumps required you to drill down far underground and pump up warm air while pumping down cold. This article makes is sounds like people are just installing A/C units in backwards. Don’t you need to drill something for heatpumps?

    • dandu3@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Nah man you’re thinking of geothermal systems. Heatpumps is just an AC that among other things can reverse the cold and hot sides so that it also heats the living area