Tego12
2020-04-22 16:53:15
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Unfortunately, this is still not the case.
There is a fundamental error in the understanding of thermodynamics here. All rooms within the same thermal envelope strive for a state of equilibrium. Thus, the rooms that are turned off are heated along by the surrounding rooms. This results in increased heat demand in the surrounding rooms and therefore energy is still consumed even if room X is apparently decoupled from the system.
Agreement & additionally: And that also with less efficiency, because with less heating surface the house requires a higher supply temperature for the underfloor heating for the same heat demand (catastrophic for the efficiency of heat pumps). Any control costs you efficiency, plus the installation costs of the control. You can of course visualize it, but even then I don’t see an advantage, as a well-adjusted heat pump simply runs, and runs, and runs, monitoring is not necessary (OK, you can do it to show off to the neighbor).