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Technological breakthrough

November 17, 2023 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

I’ll bet you hardly ever consider your fridge. That appliance is actually a pretty sophisticated heat pump apparatus. With the inclusion of a refrigerant (like Freon), this box (mostly a thin veneer covering loads and loads of insulation) manages to keep the contents around 3 to 5 C, thereby diminishing the ability of microbes to grow and spoil our food.

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Heat Pumps

July 27, 2023 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 4 Comments

My buddy always laments that his heat pump doesn’t work well when the outside temperature is running cold. That’s because he has what can be called an ancient device (more than a decade old). There have been major improvements in the devices, which is why the recent tax law changes all provided tax credits to install heat pumps. Because now they work over a wide range of temperatures.

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