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Old 12-26-11, 04:25 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Student 07 View Post
It would be better to store the heat when the ASHP isn’t running and use the heat when the ASHP needs it. For example a solar green house.
Your train of thought is correct, but you need to take one more step: Instead of storing extra heat in larger volumes of air, store it in a larger mass. Stones, bricks, sand, water, for example, or a phase-change material would be better. Using more mass instead of volume requires much less space and reduces losses. And is probably cheaper than building a 10'x10'x10' greenhouse

But even without lots of storage capacity, an ASHP with a prewarmer will still be more efficient than one without (as long as the intake isn't restricted), even if it's only by a few watts per minute.

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