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Pumping Heat - Ep42: Thomas Nowak
Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change
The Different Types of Heat Pumps
If we talk about standard heat pumps for house use, they would pretty much look like a fridge. So it's really just a bunch of pipes, heat exchangers, pumps. And that's important because, as you said, it may be cold from a human perspective outside, but from a refrigerant perspective, it's super warm. It's absolutely warm enough to evaporate. But inside its tubes, it doesn't evaporate off. It evaporates, gets cold, and then absorbs heat from the outdoors. Even if the outdoors is quite cold, it can still manage to do that. Yeah. You're right. This is three, four Kelvin. That's enough, maybe sometimes
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