Timeline for Is it more efficient to heat a room using an air conditioner (heat pump) when the windows are open?
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| Feb 6, 2022 at 19:58 | vote | accept | Erel Segal-Halevi | ||
| Feb 6, 2022 at 19:41 | answer | added | Eric Duminil | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 6, 2022 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDIY/status/1490294203640864771 | ||
| Feb 6, 2022 at 4:16 | comment | added | Mazura | I'm not sure if there's anything worse than electric resistance heat. If you want to feel warm with the windows open you need radiant heat, not forced air. I've seen people that don't pay for the boiler with their windows open all the time, because they also have little control over it and it's too hot. | |
| Feb 6, 2022 at 1:46 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @manassehkatz-Moving2Codidact the first article I found re: "air conditioner" for heat pump was UK. Clearly my location radar is on the blink! | |
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| Feb 5, 2022 at 22:25 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 22:11 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | You could mount it in the window backwards, I suppose LOL. Something that uses freon to heat is called a heat pump. It is able to air-condition too. When someone says "air conditioner" that means something that can't do that. I think what happens is, people in the UK buy "mini-splits" a lot for air conditioning purposes, and have no earthly idea they have a heat function. | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 17:57 | history | edited | Ecnerwal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 5, 2022 at 17:54 | answer | added | Ecnerwal | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 17:52 | comment | added | George Anderson | I believe the OP is actually referring to a heat pump. There is no way an A/C unit can heat a home. If a heat pump, yes, much more efficient than electrical resistance heaters....but geeze, I wouldn't want to pay your power bill! | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 17:52 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | Heat pump is the more general term for bi-directional (heat/cool) as opposed to "cool only" in common use. | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 17:41 | history | edited | Erel Segal-Halevi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 5, 2022 at 17:39 | comment | added | Erel Segal-Halevi | @Willk my air conditioner has a "cooling mode" and a "heating mode". See for example here: efficientcoolheat.com/… | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 17:34 | comment | added | Willk | I am puzzled by the use of "air conditioner" here. When I think of an air conditioner I think of a device used to cool. Maybe a translation issue? Does "air conditioner" refer to central heating as opposed to space heaters set around? | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 17:27 | history | asked | Erel Segal-Halevi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |