Hey, maybe we should all install one of these in our homes?🤔 A heat pump!
A heat pump extracts heat from the cold outside air and transfers it inside our home...
- @ThisOldHouse
... To this end, a compressor inside the device uses electricity to increase the temperature of the heat extracted from the outside air. The heat pump can also provide cooling by transferring warm indoor air to the outside.
"Since it's been installed I have easily saved $100 a month. And that's after I've paid the $50 per month rental fee." -
"At 11 cents a kilowatt hour your payback calculations aren't very favourable to buying these heat pumps,"
"Are you better off just turning up your thermostat and using an extra 50 bucks worth of electricity every month through the heating months?"
"Internet research on various sites indicates that mini-split ductless heat pumps use 1 kW to heat, compared with 3 kW to heat with electric baseboard,"
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"We can find charlatans peddling #snakeoil in a wide variety of spheres, but there are quite a lot of lies that are told specifically about water. It's such a ubiquitous substance, everywhere around us, and inside of us,
and since we need it to survive,it's fertile grounds for #pseudoscience. What kinds of lies do people tell about water?There are many colorful examples we will cover,but this first part will focus on the main #conspiracy surrounding water & that is the fluoridation of tap water.
From government mind control to neurotoxic effects, there is no shortage of #misinformation associated with this incredible achievement of modern society, so let's run through the most common talking points and see what they're all about, shall we?
Joanna D. Haigh talks about the #Sun, #SunSpots and #SolarActivity. She speaks and the elliptical #Orbit of the #Earth, the thousand of year cycles and the #ElevenYearCycle of Solar Activity, and stratospheric heat from solar radiation. 👇👇👇