A heat pump is an air conditioning system that can both heat and cool air using the same unit.

Imagine that you took an air conditioner and flipped it around so that the hot coils were on the inside and the cold coils were on the outside. Then you would have a heater. It turns out that this heater works extremely well. Rather than burning a fuel, what it is doing is “moving heat.”

A heat pump is an air conditioner that contains a valve that lets it switch between “air conditioner” and “heater.” When the valve is switched one way, the heat pump acts like an air conditioner, and when it is switched the other way it reverses the flow of the liquid inside the heat pump and acts like a heater.

Combining both heating and cooling functions into a single unit is not only economical in terms of the initial outlay, but also during the functioning of the unit.

An electric heater for example generates just 1 Kilowatt of heat from 1 Kilowatt of electricity, while a heat pump can generate approx. 3 kilowatts of heat from the same kilowatt of electricity.

A heat pump is an air conditioning system that can both heat and cool air using the same unit.

Imagine that you took an air conditioner and flipped it around so that the hot coils were on the inside and the cold coils were on the outside. Then you would have a heater. It turns out that this heater works extremely well. Rather than burning a fuel, what it is doing is “moving heat.”

A heat pump is an air conditioner that contains a valve that lets it switch between “air conditioner” and “heater.” When the valve is switched one way, the heat pump acts like an air conditioner, and when it is switched the other way it reverses the flow of the liquid inside the heat pump and acts like a heater.

Combining both heating and cooling functions into a single unit is not only economical in terms of the initial outlay, but also during the functioning of the unit.