It's the thing that keeps your groceries from rotting and your beer/champagne chill.
And, provided there's a reliable supply of electricity, it's also an efficient/reasonable tech to heat/cool your home. nostr:npub1lck4ea3wjk4tgxds0dhc57m4609nqeh6ufwxk39vurulxrzexq7ssjg5k4
Fridges use a condenser not a heat pump.
https://learn.apolloheatpumps.com/heat-pump-vs-condenser/
I've seen some online sources that don't understand the difference, but any engineer in industrial heating will tell you the same.
Heat pumps can only function efficiently in temperate climates and require the user to have additional equipment (boiler, on demand, etc) to heat water.
There are no free lunches in thermodynamicss.
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Feel free to obsess about jargon :D
All these apparatuses share the identical working principle and thus they can be put into this category that's commonly referred to as "heat pump", as you are well aware.
From a layman's perspective, perhaps.
That said, they're more different than #Bitcoin and Doge and yet those close to the technology tend to understand that there's an appreciable difference between those two protocols.
