On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 08:46:01 -0400 mitch--- via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

> I just had a thought.
> There's an inverse relationship between altitude and the heat carrying 
> capacity of a given volume of air.
> What does that do to the efficiency of a heat pump, in Flagstaff (7k)
> or Moriarty (10k)?

Moriarty is 6.2k.


> It seems like the thin air would make the temperatures of the two heat 
> exchangers farther apart.

It does. Less efficient transfer of heat to air during the cooling season
would make the outside heat exchanger hotter and the inside heat exchanger
cooler. I suppose I could calculate what the effect would be.


Craig

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