Clean, Green Heat
From "The Smarter Heat Pump Guide"
Thu 1 Jan 1970
Electric heaters are inexpensive to buy and plentiful, but they are also hugely inefficient. most rely in an element that works a bit like a giant light bulb but creates heat instead of light. Moving that heat around a room requires more electricity to power a fan.
Fans help distribute warm air. But electric heaters without a fan tend to become the focal point of a room which creates a kind of social inefficiency as you and your family cluster around the heater instead of being able to stretch out and enjoy each others' company. They can also be a danger for small children. Worst of all, all that electricity means lots of fossil fuels are burned to drive electric heaters.
So much oil and other fuels are burned, in fact , that the Swedish government's plan to make the nation an oil-free society by 2020 says "the use of direct electricity for heating [should be] minimised."
By contrast, modern heat pumps are so efficient that they have won the internationally-recognised Energy Star certification. The newest models Bearing that stamp can be 20% more efficient than previous generation heat pumps, making heat pumps one of the greenest and cheapest ways to heat you home. Better yet, heat pumps are also a clean way to heat to your home.
The simple systems that comprise a heat pump make it easy to include filters to screen out pollen and the dusts that provoke asthma. Fujitsu and other manufacturers already include these screens with their heat pumps, adding a more-than-welcome layer of domestic cleanliness to the more worldly benefit of a cleaner and healthier planet.
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