Why Heat Pumps Are the Future, and How Your Home Could Use One | The highly efficient devices are the darlings of the environmental movement. Here’s why.

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1. The problem with this comparison is that inevitably they compare it to plug-in electric heat which has always been the worst form of heat to make it sound better. A pattern this article follows.

   I’m not anti-heat pumps, I have two separate systems attached to my house, both “cold rated” to -11F but there are in no way economic to operate for heat vs my high efficiency natural gas radiant heat. It’s too cold here in Michigan and my electricity costs too much.

   So we use them exclusively for AC/dehumidification and they have been great for the.

2. Yes, you save on propane but, your electric bill zooms u…..

3. >Installing a heat pump in a single-family home can cost upward of $20,000.

   Yeah, that ain’t happening, even assuming there was no problem converting a house built in the 1890s. Same reason I won’t be driving an EV.

   The financial constraints of living right now are a severe restriction on “doing the right thing” for tomorrow.

   On the bright side, my wife and I will be gone within the next ten years, and our ecological footprint will drop to 0.