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Renewable Energy => Heat Pumps => Topic started by: allegrif on November 26, 2015, 04:27:51 PM
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Sorry to be ignorant, but I'm a little confused on what exactly these pumps accomplish. Perhaps someone could give me a simplified explanation? That would be fantastic, I'm freshly interested in renewable energy, so I'm very much learning as I'm going.
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I'm not exactly sure so take this with a pinch of salt. I believe heat pumps work in a similar way to refrigerators. I know they basically move heat rather than generate it, but by what process I'm not sure.
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I'd also be interested to see an easy explanation of this. Perhaps the admin can come and help us out?
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Compressed air. The compressed side heats up, the decompressed air cools. No heat is actually being gained, but you're essentially 'stealing' heat from one place, and putting it in another.
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