Cop 4.0 with air-to-air heat pump in an old building? Oh man!
I don’t know such systems, but please clarify, what supply temperature is the air supposed to have then?
LLHPs are certainly not the best in terms of comfort. But honestly, is an HT radiator the best in the world with its hot surfaces and convection?
By the way, it doesn’t at all justify equating an air-to-air heat pump with a fan heater and saying "that can’t work." Yes, it can, it actually does. You can easily get 6kW of heat from a single air-to-air heat pump indoor unit if you want. Of course, you spread that over more units, causing less draft and lower supply temperature.
The discussion here was about replacing a fossil heating system in an energetically unrenovated old building. This is conceptually always disadvantageous per se because you should first reduce energy consumption before worrying about a heating system that should last more than 20 years. But that was not the discussed scenario.
Yes, the COP suffers with rising supply temperature, that is no different than with an air-to-water heat pump as well.
Just take a look at the datasheets of air-to-air heat pumps, you would certainly be surprised. You won’t find fan heaters there.
I liked sleeping with an open window and my sister did too. Our eldest demands it open as well. Whoever wants to sleep in their “stuffy air” should do so.
Nice when your own opinion is always the right one, right? ;) Other families handle it differently. I don’t understand how that is so hard to accept.
Because that is learned behavior. Nothing that should stand in the way of change.