I had been thinking about getting a heat pump for my home.
The idea was to replace central heating and be able to have something to heat the house in the cold winters that will save me on energy use in order to save some money. Now the toss up between all of this is that a heat pump is very expensive, not to mention the cost of the installation for the heat pump. But after thinking about it and weighing the cost of what I spend on electric bills every single winter is it really cold verses the cost of the heat pump as well as the installation of the heat pump, in the long term, the heat pump will end up paying for itself. That is how much energy use I will save by having this heat pump instead of having to use the central heating system. In the summer for air conditioning to save money has yet to be figured out other than buying a portable air conditioning system. But with as hot as it gets around here, the portable air conditioning system would not be able to fight off the heat as central air conditioning could. So I am stuck with that it seems. But the heating is taken care of by way of purchasing a geothermal heat pump. I will be calling the local heat and a/c company to order and schedule the installation of the heat pump this coming week. I want this in my home as soon as humanly possible as we have some real cold weather coming.