Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping

Highly recommend the YouTube channel 'Technology Connections' videos on heat pumps: link link link ▶ this video

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] ▶ this video "Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping" (46m32s)

If you want an (entertaining) deep dive into heat pumps, I can recommend Technology Connection's ▶ this video and its followup, link

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 ▶ this 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 ▶ this video

Split systems are more efficient than ducted air anyway. Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping ▶ this video

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. ▶ this 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.