Hot Water Heaters

Imagine a water heater that heats its water–not by gas, nor by electricity–but simply by the air surrounding it. Your power or gas bills would be significantly lower, and you would be doing the environment a service by conserving a considerable amount of energy.

The Heat Pump HWH acts as a conventional heat pump, using a compressor (powered by a low-wattage electric current) to extract heat from the surrounding air, and then sending this heat through long copper tubes into an adaptor where it is dispersed in your water tank. This, in turn, heats the water to the same degree as would a gas burner or electric heating component, distributing the hot water throughout your home safely and efficiently.

If it takes four units of energy to heat water, heat pump hwh utilizes one unit from an electric outlet, and three units from the surrounding air, reducing your energy consumption by about 2.5 times that of your current water heater.

Why ?

We asked ourselves why a consumer should be limited to just a few choices of water heaters. Which require heavy amounts of energy per day, adding to the increasing amount of carbon emissions, let alone your utilities bill. Thankfully we’ve designed an alternative: one that uses a much more natural, renewable source of heat and saves you hundreds of dollars a year in energy costs.

According to the US Department of Energy, the average American household with a
typical water heater (gas or electric) spends about 14-25% of its energy costs on heating water alone. (US Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.)
With the Heat Pump Hot Water Heater you will reduce this percentage by about half.

Even the current “alternative” water heaters are highly inefficient: tankless water heaters have an initial and operating cost 3 times that of the AirTap™. In addition to the high cost of the unit itself, the homeowner may be required to increase the electric service capacity of their home due to the massive electric load these tankless water heaters use.

Solar paneled water heaters are also a pain on the pocketbook: the initial cost of a solar water heater system is 8 times as expensive, while requiring the same amount of electricity to provide hot water on cloudy days. What’s more is that the environmental benefits are the same.