Europe is Going to Need Many New Air to Water HeatPumps - 1169

I have had a HeatPump for very close to 10 years,, with the new, and very unfortunate citation on natural gas. And where we do not want it to come from,, because of a different, really stupid situation. I think that a lot of people in the EU and other parts of Europe will be looking at other options for heating their homes, next winter.

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[SaltCollecta]

I have an air to air system, basically an air conditioner with a heating mode. It splits off into 3 different rooms. It's amazing tech which has been stomped on for many years by the fuel companies. It sucks how the USA has air contionioners almost everywhere, but the valve which enables heating has been left out - so everyone must use oil or gas to heat their homes. It's a scam which has caused so much extra emissions for no reason other than greed.

[DonBishopDonSongs]

Hi Morten, Thanks for making this video. It makes sense to me, now. I have been meaning to look up, how these kinds of Heat Pumps work. Living in TX. I had never heard of this Type. Until you made the installation video on your smaller Heat Pump... Don

[anders_karlsson]

Someone has been watching Technology Connections 😀, still, can't be stated often enough.

Will be / want to install one later this year too, still in the brand/model research phase. Just have to see how hard they are to get.

[yon]

I was spending about $1200 per year to heat the house for four months of the year. I just installed a heat pump (reverse cycle in Australia) for about $5000 so I save $900 on heating but now I also have cooling so I don't know if I will save money or it will all go to cooling on those 35-40c days (but possibly that will run off the solar on those for days). Great video as always.

[TKomoski]

Always enjoy your projects on/in/around the Playhouse *_Cheers_*

[mihumono]

Unfortunately there are idiots who waste the electricity to melt snow.

[nwuk]

I know gas per unit of energy was about 4+ times cheaper than electric. So until that 1.5 kw in can reliably produce over 6kw output then this costs more. On top of that there is extra cost for the machine itself, additional points of failure. I guess if ur getting free electric from solar, but then that’s also expensive to buy/fit, gets lower efficiency over time, zero productivity at peak need times, uses harmful materials in production, limited lifespan.
I don’t see the point.

[varunadevanpo]

Hey Morten,
Thank you for uploading a nice video, We are also planning to change our oil heating system to Air to water heating, But when i inquire about Air to water heat pump some of them told me that it will take a lot of power supply to run fan, And they are recommending me to try Geothermal heating system, What is your opinion, I live in Hillerød, Thank you

[guywhoknows]

I've just opened a solar business, doing micro mini solar installations here in the UK.
They kinda work, but not like off grid and big systems, but the pay off is around 1 year.

The heat pumps have grants here, so people can get them for free or cheaper. They're also doing the thermal solar.

The system works like the Pelter effect.. old day CPU cooling :) it's almost how fridges keep cool air for the inside but the big radiator on the outside.

[bdema]

I admire your efforts, I live in Athens Greece and we have the opposite problem but I am looking into achieving a similar goal, stay cool in summer and warmer in winter. The temperatures are different and its harder to install and use a heat pump in Athens. I have a very limited amount of space to build and setup a heat pump, I even considered building a heat sink but its illegal where I live to dig below ground. Still it is a worthy effort and your videos inspire me to continue to look for a solution.

[bjornahh]

Hello Morten, you had that unit in 8yrs you say, the producer that made your air to water heat/cooling exchanger they reccomend to have a check/service every 2yrs that goes for your air to air heat/cooling units too, here in the northern europe they rarely fill the units to capasity when it comes to the gas inside that transports the heat/cooling from the outside/inside, get a company near you to take a service and check the level of gas inside, and i think you would need a top up of that R-410 gas if you haven't had any yet.
the firm that does heat/ac air to air units where i live, I know them personally so i got them to top up our unit when its running with a coupple of milibar extra. btw..
do you use any antifreeze red/blue/yellow/green in the water maby?
or do you just run regular mineralized tap water in it ??

[wiebowesterhof]

In your case, as you have servers running that put out a lot of warm/hot air, if you can direct that air to the intake side of your heat pump, you can probably bump the efficiency up even further because the 'cold air' wouldn't be as cold. The catch may be where I remember your server rack exhaust ends up vs where this pump is.

[jfkastner]

Replace the compressor in the small heatpump with a DC voltage powered model, that will get you another 10% efficiency - since you already have batteries etc

[hismastersvoice]

i have ask. Where you picked up your IBM System x3550 M2?

[udoeiblmaier]

In Germany there is major back lock of heat pump installations.
Since the sh*t started is sprung a major increase in orders.

For my self my flat is heated with 75% garbage over remote heating from a waste incineration plant. The reaming 25% are natural gas to supply additional heat in the coldest days of the year.

[bertblankenstein]

What about the wood pellets you have been using? Just teasing. I know you have heat pumps. I have natural gas heating in western Canada.

[nickharvey]

Do you use this for your hot water too (ie bath shower etc)?

[ralphups]

I think that, you are from the future. because us over here in England have been pondering with the ideas of heat pumps quite recently. but haven't got any were with it, and here's you I have seen that fan looking thing on your property in a few videos and was not sure of what it was. :-)

[todayonthebench]

To be fair, air sourced heat pump are good and all, but ground sourced tends to have better performance, though at the downside of needing a coil in the ground, or a deep well. Effectively, the ground sourced heat pump don't care what the air temperature outside is, since that isn't where it takes the heat from, another advantage is that the ground just 2 meters down tends to be at the average year round temperature, so here one can get a decent amount of "free" cooling during summer.

But a lot of people generally just look at the overall cost of heating something, and totally do not care about the environmental impact. Burning gas or using resistive heating is "simple" and gas sure is cheap, but non of these two are remotely good for the environment. And to be fair, running a crypto miner is technically more environmentally friendly than a space heater...

The thing that is even better is though district heating where the heat comes from areas that is in need of cooling. A lot of industrial processes regards 80 C as really cold.

[JohnnieHougaardNielsen]

Recently I saw a "funny" calculation. It takes less natural gas to burn it at a power plant to have a heat pump at home than to have a 100% efficient gas stove, as long as it is not *very* cold. In Denmark that would be even better with the power plant able to do district heating in cities too. Of course, that gas should not be financing Putin....