Heat pump sales rise by 40% in 2022

My son in law installed air conditioners primarily for cooling the house in summer but these can be used as heaters too.
The heat pump is reasonably quiet and apparently they throw out quite a lot of heat .
I’ll be interested to see how they perform over the next few years .

so in short the headline for the OP is rather disingenuous , because you are cherry picking data that shows a mass rise in sales from a practically non existent base , before the trend in the latter half of this year in something like ten different european countries shows a fairly substantial decline ?


 Reports so far are showing most if not all countries in Europe , and even the supranational blocs like the EU are going to miss their net zero targets.

 Why do you think this is zany? Are you onboard with Dan dare , that its all down to the stupid public being brainwashed , or could it be the economics don't add up?

The big problem as I see it is that heat pumps find it relatively easy to raise air temperature by up to 40 degrees. That is to say minus 6°C outside to plus 25°C inside.



Where they struggle is raising to by 70 degrees to heat your hot water and radiators.

Hence the Scandi ones work well at much lower temperatures. 

...but who is it aimed at? Why is it a general observation? Most folk I come across online and in the real world are interested in new technology, support looking after their environment , and the general well being of the planet.

People aren't stupid though. Where it all falls down is when out of touch politicians try and pass the buck , and the cost , onto the masses .

The adolf comment was tongue in cheek chookie regarding dans over the top infatuation about brown people on various threads while implying people need to keep an open mind in this.

Even you and I might just possibly once in a blue moon have something marginally in common. It doesn't mean I agree with 99.9 per cent of what you say.

stop whinging , address the topic , or stop trolling threads hen.

They have a lot of hydropower up that way and leccy is some of the highest prices. They don't get the same economy of scale since the population is sparse and leccy does not like long transmission cables, and long gas pipes are pretty expensive as well. With such high energy costs you would want to squeeze every ounce of efficiency out of your system. Another factor is their economic models are very socialist. The thing is, every country has its own unique set of natural conditions. In China they have a lot of easily accessible coal, so they may want to go down the path of cleaning up the emissions from a coal powered system. Where the people think wrong-think is when they get the idea every county is equal. That's the assumption you make when you start creating these league tables to print in your Guardian newspapers etc. Leave it up to the market and you will find countries will naturally spacialize in certain technologies, so if shopping for hydropower the Norwegians would be your first enquiry.

Ah, I see you're both into attacking other members on Mind Zone. Silly me for thinking you maybe better than that.