Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now
More pumping. More now.
Links 'n' stuff:
The original video (explaining how they work)
https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto
"Part 2" which is now, I guess, more simply about ground-source heat pumps and some other stuff
https://youtu.be/7zrx-b2sLUs
Technology Connextras (the second channel that stuff goes on sometimes):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClRwC5Vc8HrB6vGx6Ti-lhA
Technology Connections on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TechConnectify
The TC Subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/technologyconnections
And check out these cool people!
Ryan Benson, Johnni Winther, Mark Hesse, Nathan Blubaugh, lululombard , Nelson , William Evans, VilleS , Anton Afanasev, HuskyWithCoffee , Ray , Petter Feltenstedt, Gideon Ritter, Oliver Lee, Lennart Sorensen, basram, Viorel , lohphat , Vivian Pypher, Brooke Whiting, Robin Johnsen, Phia Westfall, Tom Rolfe, Mark Wayt, Arthur Robillard, Vaughn B., Breunie Ploeg, Andy O, Benjamin Cirker, Julien Oster, LeoNerd , Chris Wallace, Matt Shea, Jason Baker, Galimaufry, Michael Holmes, Trey Harris, Benjamin Kier, Peter Pfundstein, Alan B., Mat Stu, RYAN INGOGLIA, Thomas Kolanus, Brett Morgan, Daniel Johnson, Potch , Reemt Rühmkorf, Robin Rattay, Bruce Justyn, Justin D, Adam Zawisza, Triancia, Juan Olivares, Michael Shaffer, Jason Spriggs, Gregory Kumpula, Daniel Pf, Yung Kim, John W Campbell, The Slapster, BytewiseMarissa, Vince Batchelor, Peter Sarossy, Toby Gerenger, Tracy Cogsdill, Matt Allaire, Guy , Will Hayworth, Benjamin Gott, Zach Le, Sean Fyles-Duggan, Fredrik Østrem, Anil Dash, Simon Safar, Fred Leckie, Kenneth Morenz, Andy Attebery, TritonZ , Greg Stearns, Chris Satterfield (Compgeke), Cameron Benton, Samuli Suomi, Keith McCready, Jeffrey Glover, Marcus Langendorff, Hsin-Kuei Chen, David Anez, Josiah Keller, roberto.xs, tfe, Struan Clark, Alexander Karlsson, Tarrien , Jason Viterna, DrMoebyus , Antonio Esparza, Chris Larsen, Michael Romero, Aram Hăvărneanu, Jonathon Mah, Arthur Zalevsky, John Fruetel, Adam Veneziano, Andrew Diamond, Cole Campbell, Christopher Beattie, Samuel Kirzner, Daniel Pritchard, Brandon Tomlinson, Eric Loewenthal, Jeremy Samuels, Malcolm Miles, David L Jones, Matthew Burket, Noah Corwin, Andrew Roland
00:00 Intro
00:43 An old video needs correcting
02:19 The Coefficient of Performance
03:16 Resistive Electric Heat's Challenges
05:16 How Heat Pumps get around those
07:39 Modern Heat Pump Performance Is Amazing!
08:33 An analysis of Chicago winters and Heat Pumps
10:53 Hourly Analysis and Conclusion
12:24 Caveats (costs and demand)
13:52 The Main Point Of This Video
15:49 Backup heat, its necessity, and the options involved
18:29 Conclusion and where to go from here
19:56 Bloopers
More pumping. More now.
Links ‘n’ stuff:
The original video (explaining how they work)
https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto
“Part 2” which is now, I guess, more simply about ground-source heat pumps and some other stuff
https://youtu.be/7zrx-b2sLUs
Technology Connextras (the second channel that stuff goes on sometimes):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClRwC5Vc8HrB6vGx6Ti-lhA
Technology Connections on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TechConnectify
The TC Subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/technologyconnections
And check out these cool people!
Ryan Benson, Johnni Winther, Mark Hesse, Nathan Blubaugh, lululombard , Nelson , William Evans, VilleS , Anton Afanasev, HuskyWithCoffee , Ray , Petter Feltenstedt, Gideon Ritter, Oliver Lee, Lennart Sorensen, basram, Viorel , lohphat , Vivian Pypher, Brooke Whiting, Robin Johnsen, Phia Westfall, Tom Rolfe, Mark Wayt, Arthur Robillard, Vaughn B., Breunie Ploeg, Andy O, Benjamin Cirker, Julien Oster, LeoNerd , Chris Wallace, Matt Shea, Jason Baker, Galimaufry, Michael Holmes, Trey Harris, Benjamin Kier, Peter Pfundstein, Alan B., Mat Stu, RYAN INGOGLIA, Thomas Kolanus, Brett Morgan, Daniel Johnson, Potch , Reemt Rühmkorf, Robin Rattay, Bruce Justyn, Justin D, Adam Zawisza, Triancia, Juan Olivares, Michael Shaffer, Jason Spriggs, Gregory Kumpula, Daniel Pf, Yung Kim, John W Campbell, The Slapster, BytewiseMarissa, Vince Batchelor, Peter Sarossy, Toby Gerenger, Tracy Cogsdill, Matt Allaire, Guy , Will Hayworth, Benjamin Gott, Zach Le, Sean Fyles-Duggan, Fredrik Østrem, Anil Dash, Simon Safar, Fred Leckie, Kenneth Morenz, Andy Attebery, TritonZ , Greg Stearns, Chris Satterfield (Compgeke), Cameron Benton, Samuli Suomi, Keith McCready, Jeffrey Glover, Marcus Langendorff, Hsin-Kuei Chen, David Anez, Josiah Keller, roberto.xs, tfe, Struan Clark, Alexander Karlsson, Tarrien , Jason Viterna, DrMoebyus , Antonio Esparza, Chris Larsen, Michael Romero, Aram Hăvărneanu, Jonathon Mah, Arthur Zalevsky, John Fruetel, Adam Veneziano, Andrew Diamond, Cole Campbell, Christopher Beattie, Samuel Kirzner, Daniel Pritchard, Brandon Tomlinson, Eric Loewenthal, Jeremy Samuels, Malcolm Miles, David L Jones, Matthew Burket, Noah Corwin, Andrew Roland
00:00 Intro
00:43 An old video needs correcting
02:19 The Coefficient of Performance
03:16 Resistive Electric Heat’s Challenges
05:16 How Heat Pumps get around those
07:39 Modern Heat Pump Performance Is Amazing!
08:33 An analysis of Chicago winters and Heat Pumps
10:53 Hourly Analysis and Conclusion
12:24 Caveats (costs and demand)
13:52 The Main Point Of This Video
15:49 Backup heat, its necessity, and the options involved
18:29 Conclusion and where to go from here
19:56 Bloopers
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If you’re here to look at (or join) all the people who want to tell you that they think heat pumps aren’t good, here’s the brass tacks:
Heat pumps are the most efficient way to use any source of energy – including fossil fuels – for heating buildings in almost all cases; recent improvements in Air Source heat pumps have meant this remains the case in all but the most extreme temperatures.
While energy costs to the end-user may be out of whack right now – sometimes more resource-intensive energy is cheaper, for better or worse – it is factually the case that modern heat pumps allow us to RIGHT NOW reduce the amount of fuel we need to consume (a good things for various reasons), and make electrification easier as we go on.
In Australia many people have reverse cycle air conditioning (ie both) and solar power. If you have batteries as well you are 100% self reliant, but if you only have one tesla powerwall you cannot go off grid if installed correctly because only certain circuits are covered, protecting you from yourself. However being on grid benefits everyone else too as your excess solar is sent to massive grid sized batteries to power you up if your batteries run low and also to power everyone else who don't have solar. Gas doesn't run down my street so I can't have it even if I wanted it (which I don't)
Steps towards a Net Zero house (in order):
1) Insulate well and make the building enclosure as air tight as possible. You'll need a fresh air system because it's no longer coming in through the cracks in your walls.
2) Electrify your heating and cooling.
3) Install solar.
4) Install a battery backup.
What would the efficiency be of using liquified natural gas through a fuel cell, which has a byproduct of water, to charge a Tesla power wall, and then power that heat pump?
I haven't seen your videos in a while. It looks like you've made a great transformation!
Next Episode "I messed up. Heat Pumps are not important."
no they are not for we all not all from hots places so you know XP
I’m in the UK, my electricity supply is currently 7.75x more expensive than gas
Can we pump the heat from FL? Who wants it? We have heat to spare.
Portland OR electrician here. When we do load calcs for new residential construction, it is assumed a heat pump is being used for the heating/cooling unless specified otherwise. That should clue people in on what they should use for their existing house, because we're no stranger to snow up here.
Companies must first make their heatpump minisplit systems have a real-use-life of a minimum of 20 years, or owners get stuck in an endless constant-lo$$ loop, with zero ROI.
Pump, baby, Pump!
8:11 not exceptionally efficient, they are exceptionally expensive 😂😂
I'm holding out hope I can get another couple years out of my ancient gas furnace (it's from the Bush administration … and not the recent one) and heat pumps will get a bit more headroom on the low temps. Feels like a week or two at -10's is becoming normal around me.
Just got a new HVAC installed. It's gas. I used to have an air source heat pump, and it worked ok but was on resistive half the winter. It also cost more to run than forced air gas. At the end of the day, money talks and 96% efficiency is good enough for me. If I ever build a house, it'll be set up with ground source.
Okay Alec. Enough’s enough. It’s time for a haircut.
It's funny as here in Europe we got a scam with electricity: we pay all the electricity we waste a sit was coming from gas. So, no matter it comes from solar panels… you pay the most expensive bill you could.
I have an oil fired hydronic heating system. So the opposite of what people usually talk about.Switching to anything that requires air handling seems a bit of an endeavor. Best part about oil is that sales and service are local.
No such thing as, "Fossil" Fuel." 💯
Hate energy is the most abundant resource in the world, capture it all!
yeah we as a country can worry about climate change while Russia ain't threating to nuke us, while in the mean time for the next 2 & 1/2 years our President can't even remember his wife's name. let's fix those 2 problems first then we can look at Climate Change, ok there cupcake.
9:25 The air hurts my face. Why do I live in a place where the air hurts my face?
In Sweden heat pumps working down to -35C are not uncommon. We often compare the SCOP-value since it is reflection of the efficiency over a wider range of outdoor temperatures. HP with SCOP of 6,1 are available from f eg Panasonic. We are just about to install two HPs for outdoor buildings. In the main house we have geothermal heating together with 95% recovery of the ventilation heat. It's a know brainer really. Thank you for focusing on this to the benefit of our mutual home, the earth.
THIS SHIT IS SOOOO COOOOOOOL I AM SO READY FOR THE FUTURE
Our warm water is produced by heat pumps. we had one issue in four years,but it works great
"Mom, the friendly YouTube technologist is grabbing people on the street, shaking them by the shoulders, and shouting at them how ludicrous it is that they don't have home heat pumps."
"That's how you know you live in America, Billy: We know all the right answers, but we don't like any of 'em. He'll probably go insane and try to turn the entire city into a giant mega-heat-pump, so maybe we should move."
Where I live we get almost 2 months where our heatpump isn't enough to keep our house warm. Do I still recommend getting one? YES. They are amazing, and save tons of power, just don't get rid of the resistive heating as a backup for those cold winter days.
How does the heatpump work on those -23°C days? Because these are the days when I need the heat the most. Your theory sounds nice for 90% of the time, but if have no furnace to burn stuff on these extreme days I'll just freeze to death.
There's a chap – lives not far from me – who's vlogging work on his house and he did a video on heat pumps which – erm – isn't so glowing (literally and metaphorically)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azb6LAspCM4
He raises a particuarly important point which most people ignore – the idea of every house around me having A/C/Heat Pump running 24/7 is horrifying, it would be absolutely impossible to deal with
Sure – if you live somewhere houses are spaced-out or in a city where other noise is unavoidable it might not matter – but here in the UK our houses are pretty well stacked-together and – frankly – I just don't think it's a viable idea.
You should start a firm of some sort, and talk to landlords and landowning firms about changing the heating systems on their properties. But… that would just make rent go up