I wasn’t official with electric heat pumps until my spouse and I retired and moved south, then having spent our entire lives in the northern section of the country, both of us are more accustomed to boilers and heating systems. We’d never even had central air conditioner installed into a house before. The current house both of us purchased is equipped with an air-source heat pump. I remember when the realtor mentioned this, she expected my spouse and I to be very impressed. We were simply confused. Before putting in an offer on the property, I read up on heat pumps. I l gained that this type of method doesn’t burn fossil fuels to create heat. It avoids the combustion process legitimately and eliminates concerns with fumes, sizzling surfaces and carbon monoxide. Because of this, heat pumps are appealingly environmentally responsible. They don’t create orangehouse gases. Even when the outside temperature is cold, there is ambient heat energy in the air. The heat pump uses this existing heat, compresses it to a higher temperature and delivers it indoors. When the weather warms up, the heat pump switches to cooling mode and literally reverses the operation. It performs very similarly to a conventional a/c, extracting heat from the indoor air and pumping it outdoors by way of refrigerant. Heat pumps are especially energy efficient, disinfect and quiet. They are very fine at handling excess humidity. Because a heat pump can provide both heating and cooling, they are extravagant to purchase and install. We are lucky to have a nearly brand current heat pump in our current home.