Today we show you how to use an AC unit in an unconventional way to save a lot of energy. Find us on Patreon our website and twitter/x: / techingredients www.techingredients.com/ / t_ingredients
The comparison being made between resistive heating and a heat pump is reasonable from a tech stand point, but for a lot of people the real comparison is gas (ng/lpg) or wood vs heat pump and the economics heat per dollar.
With your intro, it reminds me why I watch your channel. Although I do understand heat pumps as used in residential settings, I generally pick up at least a few tidbits from you on ANY subject, no matter how familiar I am with said subject. Keep up the great work!
One thing to be mindful of: If you wish to use this A/C-setup in order to heat a room during winter, you need to make sure that the heat battery (the radiator you see on the back) doesn't drop below 12-13 degrees C. If it freezes, it will break. So forget about putting it outside in freezing temperatures, and make sure the room that has cold air being blown into it never drops below that temperature limit.
here is the problem with heat pumps in general. it takes much more energy to extract heat out of something that has alot less heat in it to begin with. ie its easy to move heat from a 70F degree room to a hallway but its alot more difficult to move heat from a 0F room to the hallway. (heat and energy are the same thing in this context)
Thank you for taking the time for that demonstration, I've been an A/C & Refrigeration technician for sometime now and first time I've seen anyone demonstrate this.
This reminds me of the time I went with my dad to a pawn shop where he was trying to hawk a window a/c unit. It was December or January. The pawn shop employee asked, "It's the middle of winter, what do you want me to do with that thing?"
I bought a heat pump a few years ago and I have no regrets. I went from using 3.5 full 285 gallon tanks of oil per year to 1.5. One thing to note is that the effectiveness and efficiency of the heating will be reduced the colder it gets outside, and you'll start having to deal with things like ice accumulation. You can pay a bit extra for a heat pump designed to work in colder climates, but I'm guessing window units will not work well in this scenario - maybe something worth testing.
"we could pretty much exchange the word entropy at any point with equilibrium" thank you for that explanation and application of entropy. It definitely helps me to understand entropy. Looking forward to the next video about improving AC efficiency.
Startling differences! Your description and explanation of "entropy" is probably the best I have ever seen. Appreciate you, your videos and projects are the most interesting and the most professionally done and I like the way you are able to bring it down to the level where laymen like myself can understand and grasp the concepts.
