30 October 2024 - thermal quiz

In cold climates, clothes dryers are rigged so that the heat they produce stays in the house during the winter. But the fridge dumps its heat inside the house no matter the weather. Obviously a house should be an integrated thermal system, with a hot loop, a cold loop, and a central heat pump and controller that efficiently puts each where it is wanted. When will that happen?

A. Yesterday. You just haven't caught on.
B. When the last holdouts move into skyscrapers, which are closer to that.
C. Since when is anything bigger than a circuit integrated?
D. Sometime after we all drown in rising oceans.