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Originally Posted by AC_Hacker
I really like your thinking on this. You are correct that reducing your heat loss reduces your need for heat generation. In that regard, you are way ahead of most, who think of the heat first and the house last.
-AC
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Just an engineer here, AC. When others argue over whether a glass is half full or half empty, we engineers just figure that the glass was made twice as big as it needed to be.
There are unintended consequences to using more energy, and unintended consequences for creating it even with solar and wind. But there are no consequences to using less. It is something that we can do right now. That is why I was excited to see this thread. I was hoping to be able to heat on a design day with a couple of 1500 watt floor pads, but if I can get the same heat with 1000 watts of compressor and pump energy, that is even better. I just don't know if the electrical overhead will be that low. Need to do the math, I guess.