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Heat Pumps: the Future of Home Heating

Technology Connections · Feb 28, 2021 · 35m 15s

What this video covers

Technology Connections explains how heat pumps work as reversed air conditioners and why they can deliver several times the heat of resistive heating per unit of energy. It also tackles common myths such as poor cold-weather performance.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN's default recommendation for a friendly, thorough introduction to heat pumps and why they are so efficient.

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Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“His whole channel (called Technology Connections) is probably my favorite one on YouTube”

“Highly recommend the YouTube channel 'Technology Connections' videos on heat pumps”

“500%+ efficiencies being possible.”

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