Show threadDroppie1d ago
rang my local council minutes ago to ask a naive question about if a DA or similar is needed for a project like this; my "logic" being there might be hypothetical boundary noise concerns to upset neighbours, given #heatpumps involve compressors & fans. got thru the obligatory accursed robo-options menu crap, then was given pleasant msg i am now in the 'customer experience' queue. i rolled my eyes so hard it accidentally forced a loud groan outta me 🙄🤦‍♀️

#electrification #electrifyeverything #electrifyeverythingwecan #renewableenergy #heatpumps #rcac #dropbearshit #depression #socialanxiety #socialphobia #dropbearelectrification
DougBamford5d ago
I think of heat pumps as being magic, but apparently it is just physics according to this Royal Institution video. And we are going to need a lot of these things to avoid climate breakdown! #netzero #heatpumps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxbUkCmHkVU
How do you heat a home with cold air? The physics of heat pumps

YouTube
Nate Allen5d ago
Having an #HVAC discussion and I wonder if a misconception about modern "mini-split" #heatpumps is that you're limited to having that thing on the wall in each room. You aren't. Our house was built in 1934 and the rooms are all small - this wasn't open-plan living - so that meant multiple heads and that was ugly and expensive. So, instead, we have a unit that sits in the basement where the furnace used to be and uses the existing ductwork. And our upstairs unit is mounted in the ceiling.
Show threadmmalcJun 9

@EarthOrgUK

In case it's of interest, I just published an article on the general topic but using it as a foil to show why good policy isn't always sufficient — you have to take Sam Vimes's “Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness” into account as well.

https://mmalc-x-machina.ghost.io/heat-pumps-and-boots/

#BootsTheory
#HeatPumps
#GreenPolicy

Heat Pumps and Boots

"Labour bans traditional tumble dryers to impose Brussels Net Zero madness on Britain." The Express (June 8th, 2026), unsurprisingly. It won't get a link. The policy is worth defending. So is the scrutiny it isn't getting — because there is a real problem here, and it's not the one the Express

mmalc X Machina
Show threadDroppieJun 8
yesterday spent hours n hours n hours [how very virginia woolf of me!] doing heavy research into potential local options for said domestic electrification. soooooooo heavy, soooooo demoralising, so sword of damoclean [coz severe peopling is now imminent, & i just don't wanna!]. nsw has its #ESS [energy savings scheme] & #HEER [home energy efficiency retrofits] programme [with confusingly vague interrelationship, but anyhoo afaict, both aimed at application by vendor individuals & businesses, not directly the individual home-owner, who is thus responsible for discovering if their prospective vendors are participants, jfc]. initial research disappointing in that am struggling to find actual businesses with raison d'etre to take care of "project managing" a home's conversion, so instead atm it seems i might have to deal with one mob for a heat-pump HWH, but an entirely different mob for the RCAC heat-pump space-heating, & dog-knows atm if i would also hafta find & coordinate a sparky. i hate this! why have businesses not seen the attraction of providing all-in-one capability? so much fucken peopling gonna be needed; i feel so bleak.

#electrification #electrifyeverything #electrifyeverythingwecan #renewableenergy #heatpumps #rcac #dropbearshit #depression #socialanxiety #socialphobia #dropbearelectrification
mmalcJun 7

"How did you transition to electrification?"
"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."

Some have been making the geopolitical argument for reducing fossil fuel reliance for a couple of decades. Slow uptake until now, but there's a real irony in its acceleration being driven in no small part by #Trump's Iranian Excursion, from an administration that actively opposes renewables. A shame the transition didn't start sooner.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/02/13/energy-a-balanced-choice-despite-populist-pressure_6750460_23.html

#Electrification
#HeatPumps
#EVs
#USPol
#EUPol

France's energy mix: A balanced choice despite populist pressure

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has published France's multi-year energy plan, which primarily bets on nuclear-generated electricity. The plan also enshrines the idea that renewables will be essential to France's energy mix in the years to come.

Le Monde
Tina M CaseyJun 4

Cost-cutting heat pump startup launches California business with direct-to-consumer sales, labor-saving remote systems, and vertical integration.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/03/heat-pump-california-jetson-home-electrification-startups/

#heatpumps #energyefficiency #energy #homeimprovement #hvac #electrification #energysavings #energyconservation #california #us #startups #innovation #investors #esginvesting #esg #us

Up To 50% Off On A New Heat Pump Installation, Says Startup

The US home electrification startup Jetson Home has launched an ambitious plan to expand its heat pump business in California.

CleanTechnica
Tina M CaseyJun 4

Cost-cutting heat pump startup launches California business with direct-to-consumer sales, labor-saving remote systems, and vertical integration.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/03/heat-pump-california-jetson-home-electrification-startups/

#heatpumps #energyefficiency #energy #homeimprovement #hvac #electrification #energysavings #energyconservation #california #us #startups #innovation #investors #esginvesting #esg #us

Up To 50% Off On A New Heat Pump Installation, Says Startup

The US home electrification startup Jetson Home has launched an ambitious plan to expand its heat pump business in California.

CleanTechnica
DroppieJun 4
thinking i'm gonna dust off my shelved notes about investigating converting my house space-heating from gas to RCAC heat-pump/s, & gas storage HWH to heat-pump storage. leave the gas cooktop alone for the time being, as those first two are the biggest consumers & emitters [& i still resent having to replace all my cookware!]. still have no desire nor intention to go for solar & battery [abiding fear of hailstones, & big antipathy to me contributing to landfill later when putative panels need replacing... & tbh, i never have shaken off my distrust of cheap inverters &/or dodgy wiring causing house fires].

i've not yet done any numbers, but i posit the nascent concept of the glimmer of an idea of a plan is attractive to me:
- ethically given i hate being cold but also hate me remaining a climate vandal
- economically wrt operating costs, even sans-solar, coz of consumer heat-pumps commonly achieving CoP 4 & maybe up to 6, AND coz as the grid more & more "greens-up", & legacy gas network increasingly death-spirals, comparative prices of kWh vs MJ are only going one way
- strongly suspect RoI wrt capital costs likely to be utterly unviable, yet the project still remaining attractive to me for the prior two items

the most obvious challenge i know involved here, is i somehow have to overcome my social-anxiety/phobia with all the close-quarter peopling necessitated if i proceed 😱

#electrification #electrifyeverything #electrifyeverythingwecan #renewableenergy #heatpumps #rcac #dropbearshit #depression #socialanxiety #socialphobia #dropbearelectrification
Tina M CaseyJun 3

Another heat pump startup launches in the US, with cost-cutting business model to boost sales.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/03/heat-pump-california-jetson-home-electrification-startups/

#heatpumps #energyefficiency #energy #homeimprovement #electrification #energysavings #energyconservation #california #us #startups #innovation #investors #esginvesting #esg

Up To 50% Off On A New Heat Pump Installation, Says Startup

The US home electrification startup Jetson Home has launched an ambitious plan to expand its heat pump business in California.

CleanTechnica