Why is fired home heat pumps in Finland?

Only travel abroad know how far we are with their construction and engineering technology behind the Europeans. The Germans - Wizard to build energy-efficient homes, the Swedes build a great house with panoramic windows. But the Finns, a party in which I recently visited, drowned pumps at home ..

For those who do not know.
The heat pump - heating device operating on the principle of the refrigerator - it transfers heat energy from one place to another with interest.

There are heat pumps "air-to-air"And"water-air".

It is said that in Finland 70% country houses are heated just heat pumps. The consumed per kilowatt of electricity they emit from 3 to 7 kilowatts of heat (depending on model).

This is not our oil heaters, which consume 2 kW of electricity and give as much room.

Why Finns do not heat the gas?

And everything is simple: gas in Finland is expensive, and electricity is one of the cheapest in Europe. And at times it is advantageous to heat the house with heat pumps instead of gas boilers voracious.

Would not it be our gas - also be included brains (c)

How much does a heat pump?

Most low-end models cost from 180,000 rubles. They pay for themselves in about 2-3 years (After all, we have people in the winter and 10-12 thousand. / Month for heating cost).

The service life of the heat pump - about 10 years. Guarantee usually - 5 years.

Hopefully, someday, and we in Russia will start to heat their homes in a modern way, and our power generating companies will begin to count the losses: people will not heat the street.