A half profile against the wall harvests heat for a water-to-water heat pump. It uses the vertical surface of a building that now does nothing.
Against a wall it harvests less per metre than a freestanding post. I say that up front.
For façade and cladding systems
A façade element that harvests heat.
Half a post, mounted against the wall. Cladding on the outside, heat source on the inside of the system.
Can a façade be the heat source for a heat pump?
Where does it make sense?
In renovation, where the cladding is renewed anyway and the aluminium has to be there regardless. And in dense city blocks, where there is no room for a borehole and no permission for outdoor units.
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