Why Heat Pumps are Essential for the Future - Explained

I went from a gas furnace to a heat pump and to say I'm unimpressed is an understatement. When it gets really cold it struggles badly.

Do the ventless dryers need a drain? You said it had a condenser. I'm just curious where the water goes. Does it drain out as liquid or evaporate and go into the house?

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People don't like rodents entering home, so if ventless dryers are perfected, great. As for up front costs, it's national energy independence factor, so that's investment in jobs for replacement considerations.

Aren't refrigerants like R134 a green house gas?

Energy prices keep rising along with the cost of everything else over time thus outpacing wage gains for most average folks, upfront cost are stupidly high for this tech and also requires higher equipment maintenance to maintain efficiency over time. So tell me how anyone is saving anything in the long run using this tech? but hey you rich folks keep having fun pretending to save the planet, living in your favorite sci-fi novel and preaching to us little people how to live.

How do you not know that burning of fuels gives of c1o1 carbon MONOXIDE. The breathing you and every other animal gives off co2 carbon Dioxide, which is also what every single plant in the world needs to produce oxygen. This is elementary school. What an idiot.

I have one of the Rheem heat pump water heaters, the 72-gallon one for my 5 bedroom house. The electric bill is never terrible anyway because the house is heated with a Lennox heat pump, but I definitely saw it go down when I replaced the electric 80 gallon heater. In addition, the Econet app is very cool and lets you remotely make adjustments if needed, as well as put the heater into a less efficient mode that heats water faster for high utilization times, as well as a heat pump only mode to save extra energy and vacation mode to turn it off while you're out of town. The energy graphs it provides are very interesting. I can easily tell which guests are taking long showers. And it's air conditioning my garage and keeping the humidity down in the summer. This particular model is the 3.6 EF version, and the newer ones are 4.0 or higher. I'm on the side of heat pumping all the things. The cost savings and pollution reduction are obvious to me. When my Lennox heat pump dies, I'll put in a new high efficiency one probably from Carrier.

Incredibly, this solution is known for many decades, but only now we start to talk about it. Europe needed a war to wake up...

What is the carbon footprint of manufacturing heat pump types of devices ? What does it mean to support the coolant industry ? Is the manufacturing done responsibly ? At the end of the device's life, then what happens with the device and its coolant ?

hvac tech 20 years. right now i recommend natural gas heat and straight cool whenever possible. that way u arent using your air conditioner in the winter essentially shortening their lifespan by quite a lot. refrigeration equipment aint built to last very long anymore due to all the epa regulations. everything they had to do to increase efficiency and the different refrigerants and oils being used.. its cut their lifespan in half while costing twice as much. i do not recommend using refrigeration in the heat cycle anymore i would personally advise on anything but.

Great video! As an engineer myself its always a challenge to get your info info down to the appropriate level to get thru to your audience. In this video (like most of your others) you hit the mark. BTW the curiosity stream deal isn't working anymore...
Keep up the good work!

Own a GE heatpump equipped drier for since 2015 .. one thing - keep an eye also on water consumption (hope it's improved over time) as it does uses tens of liters of water to help to cool and condensate moisture on heatpump. And one another hint, if you have enough space, then buy separate washing machine and drier. I do have combined unit and washing machine bearings on a drum worn off because of heat used in drying cycle. They are sealed but even tho their lubricant dried out and they got beyond repair in some ~8 years of daily washing machine usage and occasional drying.

seems to make it absolutely net zero you should capture co2 that was released by producers of all components, and co2 used for electricity generation, and, keep the captured c, if it is trees, you should keep them safe from fire or other oxidizing, if not, grow other trees, and seems somebody should continue to keep them after you die.

Love my heat pump!

An issue with heat pumps is the dangerous chemicals that they use. Those chemicals are used in many HVAC solutions and refrigerators. They can slowly leak into your home and are harmful to people. In some cases they can damage the Ozone or have a vastly increased warming potential compared to CO2. This danger is usually considered minimal with a bit of an increase the longer the unit stays in operation. The disposal of these unit have an increased cost due to the cost associated with trying to reclaim these chemicals.

So what about multi unit dwellings? Would you need both the indoor and outdoor units for every dwelling?

my heat pump gives 5,3 times every watt

Just quoted $46,000 USD to replace heat and ac with heat pumps in 1600 sf house in northern US. Not a gouged, not an outlier. New explosive refrigerants that will soon be required means when heat pumps today go the entire system down to the pipes will need complete replacement and the cost will be higher due to explosive refrigerants.

This seems like a good upgrade across the board for utilities - not even considering environmental issues. Better efficiency and longevity alone is worth it.

I just purchased the GE Profile Ultrafast Combo washer/dryer. It's the largest unit in the US to use a heat pump with it's 4.8cu capacity and has a proper lint screen when most all in-ones don't. Actually the con of it not getting not as hot is actually a pro since it's easier on your clothes. Apparently the GE Ultrafast doesn't take that much longer when compared to traditional dryers, but is way faster than the condenser based all-in-one ventless combos that are currently flooding the market. Hopefully the GE lives up to it's specs, and has a high lifespan.

LOVE this video! Never knew about heat pump dyers and water heaters.Thanks.

The oldest heat pump I ever worked on was a set of 4 each open drive 125 HP heat pumps located in the basement of the 1948 SCE building in Downtown Long Beach, CA. They used R-12, and sent all of the hot gas to a water heat exchanger above the compressors, then on to a evaporative cooling towner, where the R-12 went through a copper heat exchanger, and water will drop over it to cool the hot gas in the cooling mode, and the fans both evacuate the garage (so act like a garage exhaust fan) and cool the water and hot gas coil.

In the heat only mode, the refrigerant flow is reversed, where the coil in the cooling tower is used to boil the R-12, and then the compressors still send the hot gas into the hot water heating coil, and then back to the cooling tower heat exchanger coil, to collect more heat (without the water pump running). Hot water and chilled water was then pumped through the hot deck and cold deck, to heat and cool the building, as needed. It was a 13 story building with 3 floors of parking, mostly underground.

The oldest heat pump water heater that I own is a Airtemp built by Chrysler Corp, back in 1978. They stopped making Airtemp products in 1979.

Heat pump water heaters work great! However the current heat pump water heaters only use a 5,000 Btu compressor, so they do not heat a lot of water each hour.

i was onboard until you said rheem. I am an electrician actually, but every one of my plumbing and HVAC friends (i know dozens of them) who will not use rheem because of their failure rate and because MANY of the units arrive DOA. also the tanks leak due to poor assembly quality. the technology is good, but if you want a reliable system, most HVAC installers and service technicians say IBC has the lowest failure rate across its product range.

I had a ventless combo laundry appliance from Dehlongi, so it did the washing and the drying, the latter via heat pump with no vent, all in one unit/chamber. When it was working it was great for me as a single guy and was even mostly fine when my wife moved in. It was too slow to dry once we had a kid. The bigger problem though was that it kept breaking down and needing service.

That said, I recently got a heat pump water heater when my gas unit broke down. Between local utility rebates and the Inflation Reduction Act subsidy, the total installed cost should only be about $300 more than a new gas unit. Gas is pretty cheap where I live (Baltimore), but even so, I expect to save at least $200 a year in operating cost, according to the Energy Guide stickers on the new and old unit. Plus, as Matt points out, I expect to reap some benefit from the dehumidification and cooling it'll provide in the basement.

I forget, is he building a new net-zero home?
But seriously, I think it's great. Wish I would have done more on that front when I built my house in 2004. But I do have a heat pump dryer here in Japan. It is OK. It is smaller and takes forever to dry though. Make sure to clean lint traps religiously if you have one.

Joe, really enjoy your channel, but the inference about the US using Natural Gas and Oil heating resulting in 400 Million+ tons of CO2 "emissions" is off base.
CO2 is a heavy molecule it does NOT go UP into the atmosphere, is stays on the ground where ALL OF THE TREES AND PLANTS use it to make fresh oxygen allowing you record your excellent videos without passing out.

"Global Warming" is a ruse and it is the ultimate example of human Ego believing that anything we do or have done will somehow affect the temperature of the Earth.

On the other hand a VOLCANO can emits DUST CLOUDS to block the sun and cool the earth, but that is NOT under MAN's control.

Seeding clouds with CHEM trails is a direct desecration of Nature.

Man's focus on developing new technology tools or enhancing centuries old versions thereof are useful for our comfort and much more useful in discussion than the worn out FAKE issues of global warming.

Continued success on your channel!

Why is it so hard to find a Ammonia based heat pump. For residential sized systems . The volume of Amomonia in it would not be any fire or toxic issues.

Love your information!🙂👍 Gives hope that our planet earth will survive while humans try to destroy the planet for future generations!🤔

do you really need a drier to dry your clothes? really?

You're still stuck on Carbon emissions. Grow up.

Mat r410a not r134. That is car freon

Farell, once again you are giving people bad and wrong information.
You are very good at sounding like you know what you're talking about when in fact you don't.
because it's obvious that you don't really understand the physics behind the things that you are explaining.

but you DO have the gift of the GAB.
so people tend to believe you because you sound like you know what you're talkin about.
But it's amazing that you have 1.4 million followers while you're giving them wrong information since you don't really know what you're talking about.
Like your description "in the cooling mode " you do understand that it's a cycle that repeats but you don't really understand how it actually works so you giving the wrong description of the process.
Also, heat pumps are only efficient during the heating mode but they are much less efficient in cooling mode because all the moving parts are generating heat of their own. Which cannot be harvested and it's detrimental to the cooling function.

This is, of course, not taking in consideration how efficiently the electricity used for this system was generated

Wish I had heard of this technology before I replaced my electric dryer.

Heat pumps are often noisy.

Natural gas is cheap, cries in PG&E. Heat pumps seem near perfect for California.

I wish my personal experiences with heat pumps were good. We put one in my office 10 years ago, whenever the temp gets down to about 15F (-9c) the coil freezes and it produces no heat at all. So, the coldest days of the year, i have no heat at work. My buddy installed one in a house he just remodeled. I told him to keep the existing oil burner as a backup. He said no need, the heat pump is like 97% efficient down to -20F, or whatever the brochure said. Fast forward 3 months, the system can't heat the house above about 60f on cold days, and because he scrapped the previous system, he just has to live with it. Where i live isn't even that cold, only a handful of days/year get below 0F (-18c) and even here it seems geothermal is a much wiser choice than air to air, but it's $30k minimum.

I’m in Florida and almost every home here has a heat pump, as most communities here are electric only. They have been common here for about 20 years. I also heat my pool with a heat pump.

No. Heatpumps are crappy coldpumps in hot climates, and they take too long in either mode to reach their target temperature. CO₂ isn't even pollution, that's just the bill of goods we've been sold to this point.

The only thing you don't mention in your videos is maintenance AND breakdowns. Which ALL those machines you are describing here are guilty of... They are good if someone can service them (happens to be my profession) but if you are trying to be "off grid" this is by far the WORSE choice you can make... They can survive UP TO 6 years of normal use. Now calculate from here... Also, this is 40 year old tech yes? For "off grid" the first and highest priority is not cost, is maintenance...

Thank you, Matt, for your comprehensive research. Have you considered styrofoam pellet-mixed concrete blocks for your house and rockwool insulation? All the best with your new house. God bless you.

A watt is exactly a joule per second, but great video nevertheless 😃

Refrigerant rabbit hole -

And that’s changing too

R410a not r134

I don't like a heat pump pumps heat (in summer) or cold (in winter) to environment (surrounding). It deters the climate of surrounding.

Honestly I’m wondering if the heat pump can also use the advantages of a geothermal system, if so how much more efficient would the end result be?