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"heat pumps" are the fancy new sustainable green heating tech. whereas "airco" is the wasteful energy-intensive cooling system that we "don't need in our kikkerlandje".
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@bananas Given that it's been decades since we know that typical Dutch ventilation is unhealthy, and this still hasn't changed, I'm not holding my breath
(... or should I)
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@joepie91 maybe it's time to start advertising them as "inverted heat pump"? :D
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@shine This is almost literally how you pitch approval for an a/c to your landlord: you ask whether you can install a "heat pump with cooling function"
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@joepie91 also people in the US
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@Ember Interestingly, the framing of airco as 'wasteful' has historically mainly been made in the context of the US using so much of it
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@joepie91 and one day they may even start building like we shouldn't need aircon.