Re: Heat Pump comments

alan.b2@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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I should add that geothermal heat pumps are a whole different animal.
They are very expensive, but if installed properly I believe they
would be very efficient and useful down to colder outside
temperatures ...

Yes


... (although still noisy).

No. The removal of the air source to the recirc fluid pump makes all the difference in the world. It's the air exchanger that's the noisy component and it goes away.

I clipped a bunch for brevity, but I'd disagree on the assessment of suitability based on amount of snow and how long it stays around. It's the temperatures and the temperature profiles that matter, not the amount of precipitation and/or its form. One doesn't necessarily imply the other. It's colder than blazes here a lot of the time, but it snows almost never when it is cold and annual snowfall can be from none to feet, just depending on the year. Need a qualified installation calculation to judge.

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