Don't bother about energy shortages, but continue to waste energy!

To throw out energy into the street is…..PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT

Let energy shortages be there, but continuing with this type of behavior is PERFECTLY OK

Surprised, OR, rather irritated, with these statements?

But that is what we have been doing for, say around 100 years

Heat is the primary from of energy, & we (HVAC engineers) are experts in throwing it out!

Living in a hot country like India, doing this looks very natural for us,
though energy has become an issue all around.

Have you ever said,

“A warm, and pleasant summer day, OR A Hot and horrible summer day”

The first statement is perfectly all right for a westerner from a colder climate!

Similarly have you ever thought of throwing freshly cooled air into the street?

Again that is perfectly OK for a westerner as he is trading heat for that chillness!

But it is the western mind that invented all air conditioning technologies that we use.

They looked at, studied and designed all systems to suit, primarily a colder climate.

Except the standard air conditioning that we are all familiar with.

Let us thank them first for having given us those technologies,
though their pressing needs were mainly heating only!

So when they designed and christened a machine, “heat pump” primarily to pump heat for heating applications we were not concerned: Also as they were “stealing” heat form a colder “outside” it did not matter to them that they were throwing away “precious chillness” into the road, just as we were throwing “precious heat energy” that we stole from indoors!

Yes there are systems called heat pumps that produce products with “heat”

They can produce hot water OR
They can heat air wherever required OR
Simply produce chilled water OR
Get hot water as the main product and chilled water as the by product!

Advantages of such systems are as follows:

1)With pumping of heat rather than directly applying heat energy, it requires less power to produce hot water: C.O.P is the indicator of this
2)In some applications the client can do away with boilers resulting in saving in fuel costs, saving from bothersome boiler acts etc, saving from irksome storage problems of messy fuel. And escape from the clutches of a boiler inspector!
3)Reduction in main chiller capacity (to the extent given by the heat pump.
4)Reduced demand charges to EB (KW demand comes down)
5)Reduced transformer size from EB or the client’s own
6)Standby DG set size and cost come down
7)Value addition for a high rise residential promoter as the clients need not go in for Geysers for the bath rooms
8)Eligibility for governmental concessions for energy saved as and when acts gets passed by the parliament
9)Import benefits for eligible clients as an energy saving equipment
10)Power supply system breaths easy due to reduced demand

And you can add a lot mote benefits
If there are issues or problems,
let us face them to solve it,
rather than rejecting the idea outright!

All "thinking" governements across the globe encourge such advanced concepts. But in India we have time only to think of the next scam!