Heat pumps were supposed to transform the world. But it’s not going as planned. | Heat pump sales, critical to the transition to clean energy, have slowed in the U.S. and stalled in Europe.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 28 days ago

Heat pumps were supposed to transform the world. But it’s not going as planned. | Heat pump sales, critical to the transition to clean energy, have slowed in the U.S. and stalled in Europe.

cerement@slrpnk.net · 27 days ago

(doesn’t help that most HVAC installers in the US are of a relatively conservative bent, no problems trash-talking heat pumps while they try to up-sell you on the latest forced-air system)

skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de · 27 days ago

Oh man, totally. Local HVAC peeps try to claim heat pumps are super expensive and omg stay away…even though it’s just an AC that goes both ways. Probably scared of the cut into their gas furnace maintenance revenue.