Heat pumps basically pump heat from outside to inside or vice versa (cooling) which is technically what your fridge does

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Heat pumps basically pump heat from outside to inside or vice versa (cooling) which is technically what your fridge does

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Heat pumps basically pump heat from outside to inside or viceversa (cooling) which is technically what your fridge does (pumpheat from inside to outside). Heat pumps use electricity as wellenergy from an energy source which can be from underground(geothermal), water-source (say from a lake), or air-source (fromthe air) so we're using electricity as well as the heat in thatsource so your output is greater than the input electricityinvested. The efficiency metric for heat pumps is called theCoefficient of Performance (COP) which can reach up to 500% withtoday's newer technologies.
We're talking a lot about heat transfer, what are the threemethods of heat transfer and where do we encounter those methods ina day to day?
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