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Looking to get some anecdotal experiences from someone living in a cold climate using a heat pump as their main source of heat.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If temps are going to be below 30F regularly, you'll need an auxiliary source. My parents got one last year, if they don't switch off it'll run constantly to keep temps at ~55F and drive their electric bill through the roof. It works well for them during the day in the winter most of the time and during the fall and spring.

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[โ€“] Paragone 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This place uses a heat-pump for cooling, in the summer, but it uses a furnace for heating.

It used to reach -20C or colder, here, in the winter...

it's rained damn-near every week, this winter...

since there is sooo much lag, between the climate-forcing adulteration of our atmosphere,

and the actual climate's temperature,

it looks like we're going to be .. needing to find some other planet to be inhabiting, in a century...?

Based on actual history, this planet's current equilibrium-temperature is +5C..+6C, not anywhere near the +1.5C delusion people are still believing-in.

but when one factors-in methane ( & only that one ), that we add, it works-out to +8C..+9C planetary equilibrium... ( using methane's 20-y equivalent, of 82.5x factor, given the current 1.3ppm to 1.4ppm that we have unnaturally added of methane )

anyways, here's the link stating that at this atmospheric CO2 the planetary-equilibrium-temperature is between +5C & +6C, in case anyone is interested:

Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19798

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