Residential heat pumps have grown more attractive as an alternative approach to home winter heating. Their dual functionality as air conditioner in the summer and kinda warm air blower in the winter has been augmented recently by the introduction of the CHEAP high pressure side gas spring charger with CHEAP spring quality gauges driven even CHEAPER multidimensional optimization tables. The net result has been a cheaper, much more rugged, tenable over a much broader range of climates, and LIGHTER solution. Maybe it’s time to lift the damn thing off the cement slab and mount it on the roof. That’s where all the industrial solutions are. All aspects of toxicity, precipitation accommodation, and load bearing have been addressed by industry, and perhaps the existence of a penthouse on a residential structure might push into affordability the implementation of rainwater runoff control and exploitation, installation and maintenance by the resident of private antenna and surveillance gear (an innocuous use of which might be determination by the resident of the condition of his or her own roof) all done aesthetically as evaluated by each homeowners association. A homeowner might EVEN be able to cost effectively capture heat from a chimney if the flue were run through the exchanger, all optimization issues addressed by the gas spring and gauges approach elucidated her to for. With out saying the chimney must exhaust above the exchanger coils.

No more rushes no more vines, no more weed whacking the sodcrap behind…