heat pump

{{#set:page type=article}}{{#set:thing type=technology}}

About

A heat pump is a method of heating or cooling a volume of space by using electrical power to move heat-energy around instead of just generating heat (as in resistive heating. They are most commonly used for heating buildings (including residential homes), but they can also be used for water heaters and clothes-dryers.

Benefits

The two primary alternatives to heat-pumps are natural gas and radiant electric:

• Natural gas (basically methane) is a fossil-fuel, which requires constant extraction and releases greenhouse gases. Burning fuel also generates heat, which may itself contribute to Template:L/ip.
• Radiant electric, although 100% efficient, is still very expensive to run; heat-pumps can be significantly more than 100% efficient and essentially do not contribute to global warming, since they generate as much cooling as heat (just in different places -- inside vs. outside).

Countering Myths

There's a lot of misinformation about heat-pumps, largely because of how much the technology has improved since it was first commercially available.

• They do work in cold climates.
• They do not require special wiring or ducting (any more than an air conditioner does).
• They are not inherently super-expensive.
  • ...unless you count geothermal/ground-source heat-pumping, but that's optional.

Links

Reference

• Wikipedia

Videos

when posted	length	channel	link
Template:Fmt/date	35:14	Technology Connections	Heat Pumps: the Future of Home Heating
Template:Fmt/date	28:04	Technology Connections	Ground Source / Geothermal Heat Pumps and Other Info
Template:Fmt/date	21:02	Technology Connections	Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now
Template:Fmt/date	46:32	Technology Connections	Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping
Template:Fmt/date	11:38	Undecided with Matt Ferrell	The Genius Of Hot Water Heat Pumps
Template:Fmt/date	14:25	Undecided with Matt Ferrell	How My Geothermal Heat Pump Really Performed (2 Years)
Template:Fmt/date	14:21	Undecided with Matt Ferrell	Why Heat Pumps are Essential for the Future - Explained
Template:Fmt/date	14:41	Undecided with Matt Ferrell	Why CO2 Heat Pumps Are The Future Of Cooling
Template:Fmt/date	18:02	Undecided with Matt Ferrell	How This New Heat Pump is Genius
Template:Fmt/date	14:39	Ziroth	The Genius of the World's Most Efficient Heat Pump
Template:Fmt/date	13:23	Undecided with Matt Ferrell	Why This Window Heat Pump Is Genius
Template:Fmt/date	13:52	Just Have a Think	This is the future of heat pumps!
Template:Fmt/date	13:24	Undecided with Matt Ferrell	Why Hybrid Solar Heat Pumps are the Future of Home Energy
Template:Fmt/date	15:46	Undecided with Matt Ferrell	Are Heat Pumps a Scam?
Template:Fmt/date	10:53	Sabine Hossenfelder<ref name=misinfo />	The Trouble With Heat Pumps
Template:Fmt/date	09:56	Sabine Hossenfelder<ref name=misinfo />	These New Heat Pumps Will Make a Real Difference
Template:Fmt/date	13:10	Undecided with Matt Ferrell	Are Heat Pump Dryers Really Worth It? Miele Dryer Review
Template:Fmt/date	13:53	Technology Connextras	A surprisingly effective feature of mini-split heat pumps (at least... I think so?)
Template:Fmt/date	21:30	Technology Connextras	How to calculate when heat pumps make financial sense (and other heat pump follow-up thoughts)

Footnotes

<references> <ref name=misinfo>This channel has presented misinformation on at least one prior occasion.</ref> </references>