Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now

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. [VIDEO] [LINK]

If you want an (entertaining) deep dive into heat pumps, I can recommend Technology Connection's [LINK] and its followup, [VIDEO]

Highly recommend the YouTube channel 'Technology Connections' videos on heat pumps: [LINK] [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]

Another one of my "came across this in YouTube" things (started with the design of a hurricane lantern) Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now - [VIDEO] The key is the Coefficient of performance [LINK]

This is not true since the vast majority of electric whole home heating units sold today are heat pumps, which are up to 300% efficient [1]. If the power generation and distribution is 33% or higher efficiency, then a heat pump will outperform a natural gas furnace operating at 100% efficiency. EDIT - Here's a video that explains it much better than I could, although it's a bit long, this YouTuber is great. [2] [1] [LINK] [2] [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: [VIDEO] [LINK]

Heat pumps have come a long way. [VIDEO] gets into the energy efficiency of heat pumps and their temperature tolerances.

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] [VIDEO] "Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now" (21m02s) [2022-04-13] [LINK] "Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping" (46m32s)