Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping
Technology Connections5 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
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Technology Connections' long closing video in his heat pump series, arguing that adopting heat pumps is well within reach. It explains how they work and what it takes to start using them.
HN recommends the series as an enthusiastic, entertaining deep dive into residential heat pumps whenever heating or climate threads arise.
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Heat pumps have gotten very good in the past couple of decades, especially in the east Asian markets, and even older homes have fairly drop-in options available, assuming the market demand is there. [VIDEO] Yes, it's a solution that requires a significant investment in (individual) infrastructure, but so does almost every other solution to anthropogenic climate change. If the solutions were totally easy, we'd have done them by now. Moving to heat pumps is on the easier end of the spectrum, though.
Split systems are more efficient than ducted air anyway. Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping [VIDEO]
Technology Connections on Youtube has a great video series on how heat pumps work, why they're important environmentally and what kind of power cost savings they can bring. The second video is a longer guide for people who want to get a heat pump. [LINK] [VIDEO]
Yes, apparently there have been huge advances in the efficiency of heat pumps since then. And this is why ground source heat pumps are less of a thing these days: you don't need the help of that underground temperature as much. This guy gets really excited about heat pumps: [LINK] [VIDEO]
If you want an (entertaining) deep dive into heat pumps, I can recommend Technology Connection's [VIDEO] and its followup, [LINK]
He made several excellent videos explaining residential heat pumps: [2021-02-28] [LINK] "Heat Pumps: the Future of Home Heating" (35m14s) [2021-04-01] [LINK] "Ground Source / Geothermal Heat Pumps and Other Info" (28m03s) [2022-03-26] [LINK] "Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now" (21m02s) [2022-04-13] [VIDEO] "Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping" (46m32s)
Highly recommend the YouTube channel 'Technology Connections' videos on heat pumps: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO]