Comment on Could heating oil subsidies be reduced or replaced with subsidies for installing electric heating and houses.?

CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  mmm…so they claim. I know people with heat pumps who needed to install secondary heating. Entirely depends on house size.

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  • timroerstroem@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Of course it depends on the house; just like you wouldn’t put a moped engine in a tank, a heat pump needs to be sized for the space to be heated (or cooled).

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  • GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’re installing the right sized heat pump for the space you’re heating, they’re great. If you try to heat Buckingham Palace with a space heater, you’re going to have a bad time.

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  • bluGill@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not just size, location. The best heat pumps stop working at around -20. Where I live it gets colder than that for a few days every couple years so I must have secondary heating.

    The common heat pump in the US is only good to 25. There is no reason for this, but I don't know how to fix it.

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