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Ground Source / Geothermal Heat Pumps and Other Info

Technology Connections · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Power grid, heating & buildingsRenewables, batteries & storage

What it is

A Technology Connections video on how ground-source (geothermal) heat pumps work and why they hold efficiency in winter. It also covers related heat pump information, and the description notes air-source heat pumps have since improved.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as part of an excellent, approachable series explaining residential heat pumps.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here's a pair of really great videos about heat pumps and what they can (and could, in the future) do”

    Great videos about what heat pumps can do.

    coldpie, 2021-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?”

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

    Technology Connections heat pump video series on how they work.

    sushiburps, 2023-02 · Strong recommendation · in “200-year old heat pump technology is back”

  3. “The Technology Connections channel has a couple of interesting videos on the topic of heat pumps”

    Interesting heat pump videos from Technology Connections.

    throw0101a, 2022-03 · Recommendation · in “You and the planet need a heat pump”

  4. “The Technology Connections YT channel has a couple of good videos about how them”

    Explains ground-source heat pumps and why they keep efficiency in winter.

    timbit42, 2022-09 · Recommendation · in “Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (2009)”

  5. “He made several excellent videos explaining residential heat pumps”

    Part of a series of excellent residential heat pump explainers.

    nayuki, 2023-01 · Recommendation · in “Do heat pumps work in cold climates?”

  6. “They are a very efficient way to get both AC and Heating”

    Shows heat pumps as efficient for both heating and cooling.

    Joel_Mckay, 2026-02 · Recommendation · in “Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed”

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Topics: geothermal, ground source, hvac, efficiency, home heating

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