Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies A/C’s, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls heat pumps A/C’s. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.
If you’re saying “A/C family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of HVACae, which includes things from fans to swamp coolers to radiators.
So your reasoning for calling a heat pump a A/C is because random people “call the heat exchanger thingies A/C?” Let’s get refridgerators and freezers in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A heat pump is a heat pump and a member of the A/C family. But that’s not what you said. You said a heat pump is a A/C, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the heat exchanger family A/C’s, which means you’d call refridgerators, freezers, and other heat exchangers A/C’s, too. Which you said you don’t.
Thank you Alec from Technology Connection.
But he’s right though.
Also heat pumps!
Isn’t that not just another word for AC in this context?
Here’s the thing. You said a “heatpump is a A/C.”
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies A/C’s, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls heat pumps A/C’s. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.
If you’re saying “A/C family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of HVACae, which includes things from fans to swamp coolers to radiators.
So your reasoning for calling a heat pump a A/C is because random people “call the heat exchanger thingies A/C?” Let’s get refridgerators and freezers in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A heat pump is a heat pump and a member of the A/C family. But that’s not what you said. You said a heat pump is a A/C, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the heat exchanger family A/C’s, which means you’d call refridgerators, freezers, and other heat exchangers A/C’s, too. Which you said you don’t.
It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?
Er… No?
I said “In this context” (using it to keep a room cool), a heat pump is AC.
No generalization, specifically just this usecase.
And while the rest of your rant is not wrong, it just does not apply to what I actually said…
My AC does sound like a murder of crows…
Brave of you to bring a reddit copypasta here
I’ve been doing it throughout. “Take what you like and leave the rest”
I like it.
Especially heat pumps!