That’s pretty remarkable and the very definition of versatile
I’ve lived in regions where you simply have to have a gas furnace or boiler for HVAC heating during the winter. There is a certain amount of cold where that is the sort of HVAC equipment needed during the winter. Where I live now, the heat pump does a great job of heating. However, the mild winter in this region does get a lot of call for heating. And while the land of the gas furnace is too cold for the heat pump to be efficient with heating, the heat pump is still a remarkable dual threat. The heat pump is a very versatile piece of equipment. And the heat pump is really a revolutionary machine when it comes to HVAC in general. The heat pump helped open up areas that were thought to be simply too hot to be population centers. That’s pretty remarkable. But while the heat pump is sort of intertwined with HVAC cooling, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t great at heating either. For much of the country, the heat pump gets through winter wonderfully. When it’s time for heating and will flip the switch on the thermostat, the heat pump just reverses the process for HVAC cooling. Now, the heat pump is extracting heat energy from outside to bring inside for heating. And it can do this very efficiently to temperatures below freezing. That’s pretty remarkable and the very definition of versatile. The heat pump is still the leading form of residential heating and cooling equipment in this country. Not bad for something that’s been in our homes since the 1950’s.