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slightly daft cartoon à propos, vaguely, of the time of year

PSA for people in the US: On January 1, no more residential heat pumps may be sold that use R410-A refrigerant. So some contractors may be out of stock and have higher prices OR you may find an installer who is overstocked and will give you an incredible deal. Call around for multiple quotes!

Thankful for thermodynamics.

What if we… just gave everyone a heat pump?

TL;DR: heat exchange performance over fashion. Heat exchangers have mostly been designed with light colored metals so they get less hot, making it easier to reject heat in the summer. As more ACs become heat pumps the cold climate ones will use dark colors for better winter performance.

Trick question! A life with climate change is a harder life, no matter what trade or profession you do.

No way to say with that limited information but in Denver you are in luck! GoElectric Colorado (covered in this episode heatpump.review/podcast-003-... ) can help you sort it out for free.

What are your heat pump questions? Can be technical, industry or policy related. I will try to answer them or find the experts on Bluesky who can.

Our first starter pack: green building design professionals who we know and trust. Please do suggest more folk to us, but note that we're trying to take care to only include people whose work has impressed us. go.bsky.app/LzGqBtA

Looks like Daikin/Goodman/Amana is still on track to get their Residential AC/Heat Pumps switched over to the lower GWP R32 by the Jan 1 deadline. Only one model/line looks like it will be far behind schedule.

Yes. And well designed software for heat pumps is required to make participation in VPPs go from something that lasts only hours a year in traditional utility run programs to something happening all year.

I always thought that industry had limited electrification potential. How wrong I was: Once we looked into it in more detail we found that the potential for industrial electrification is huge. 90% of industrial process heat could be electrified in Europe by 2035.

Heat pump starter pack just dropped. go.bsky.app/KCLxmj9

Because we are very 1337 DNS managers, we are how happily at @heatpump.review

Of course this will keep happening. And long term: On site solar + storage + heat pumps will replace many heat processes with crazy savings.

made a starter pack for those looking for passivhaus peeps, building science gurus, energy codes, building decarbonization, retrofits, and deep green building bada**es go.bsky.app/G8qrGku

The financing and incentive landscape is complex, and that just might slow down the energy transition. One startup, Coral, is trying to make everything more simple – and reduce costs for customers and contractors in the process: heatpump.review/podcast-005-...

This one's for the open standards and energy nerds! This week on the podcast, we talk to Rolf Bienert, the Managing and Technical Director of the OpenADR Alliance. OpenADR is the leading open protocol for demand response. heatpump.review/podcast-004-...

We launched a podcast! Hopefully something you all will enjoy if you’re into electrification, heat pumps, “green jobs,”climate, and climate justice. Would be honored to have you give it a listen and for you to share with a friend or colleague who geeks out about this too. heatpump.review/podcast/

"Hey, what's that SEER2 rating mean on my heat pump?" We just published the overview you've been looking for: heatpump.review/seer-seer2-e...

What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs

New Article: Refrigerants! Why heat pump buyers should know as much about the molecules inside their appliances as the performance characteristics that operate them. heatpump.review/refrigerants...

Heat pumps work when it’s cold. They just work harder. Heat pumps remain more than twice as efficient as gas boilers, even at temperatures well below freezing. More in my @carbonbrief.org heat pump myth buster: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18...

ICYMI: some bad people made some probably fine people make some bad decisions about the next generation of energy efficiency building codes. Read our overview here: heatpump.review/iecc-2024-gu...

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