[Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I picture a world where everything in the house runs off a single heat pump, and heat gets diverted from your A/C into your water heater and clothes dryer.

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  • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I assume the difficulty is the refrigerant plumbing? And integrating between different systems?

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean you’d have to basically build the whole house around it. And I’m not sure about the feasibility of moving heat around to more than 2 devices…

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    • SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, try storing heat for later use. How do you do this as a temperature battery?

      An efficient device like solar panels are still much much less effective without batteries. In the same vein, producing or moving heat right now doesn’t mean some other room or device needs the excess or inverse right now.

      Nobody runs a dryer constantly, for example. If there’s barely any heat to pull when it is needed, how do you solve for that? Generating heat goes against the goal of recycling it with a central system.

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  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Geothermal systems can do that for water heaters, AC, and heat, so… They kinda already do that.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Geothermal doesn’t really work great in many situations for a lot of different reasons. That’s why heat pumps exist.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Terrible redundancy

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• northendtrooper@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I love my hybrid water heater. Having it only kick over to heater when it hits high demand. The fan on the exchange feels amazing during our hot summer months.

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