Heat now kills three times more Europeans than roads. A heat pump is a two-way air conditioner: cooling in July, heating in January, no imported gas.
Near the end of the article:
Disclosure: I am an angel investor in FlexDrill, a Vienna startup building the missing machine from this article.
I thought this deserved further attention and should be at least closer to the start given the strong incentive the article gives to promote the solution they invested in.
I wish people would stop appropriating the ‘MAGA’ acronym.
It needs to die.
STOP USING FASCISTS SLOGAN AGAIN
oh my fucking god!
I’m curious how this would prevent the need for importing gas to generate the electricity. None of my heat pumps run exclusively on wind and hydropower.
A working link / definition of a ground-source, residential heat pump might help. WP has a page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_source_heat_pump
I guess followup Q’s would be like: how practical are they across Europe?, what types of situations would they work best work in and where might they be impractical? How much can they scale to larger buildings?