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I'm in a pretty cold part of the world (N Canada) so heat pumps aren't terribly effective or cheap compared to gas. But I still have a mini split and use it during the summer in combination with the furnace fan to circulate the cool around the house. I could have put an evaporator in the furnace plenum (along with condensate trap) but for the weekend worth of summer we enjoy here, it hardly seemed worth it.
In the shop at the farm, I'm currently working on a cooling system that can be switched from swamp cooler to urea melter, since we use a lot of liquid fertiizer and melting urea is one way to get a nitrogen source for spraying foliar fertilizer. Urea melting, being an endothermic reaction, needs a lot of heat to properly dissolve the urea by keeping it above the salt-out temperature. I've ordered a heat exchanger and plan to use a spa pump to circulate the solution through a closed loop glycol exchanger system, and cool the shop. I can put another heat exchanger in to utilize swamp cooling on the same loop and switch between them.
I used some old conveyor belting to isolate the furnace hanging in the attic in my other house at the farm.