Here's a fun observation:
I've run into several European Mastodon folks who lead me to believe an interesting barrier to adoption of heat pumps over there will be previously long-held beliefs that air conditioning is a horribly wasteful American thing, and getting a heat pump is a slippery slope to making air conditioning mainstream
In the interest of science and community, let me break this down for you:
Heat pumps are the most efficient way to heat a building. Period. They move energy from one place to another at a rate four times what they consume, sometimes more. Many of them can move heat in both directions, meaning they can also provide cooling. That's a fun little bonus which you may or may not choose to use, but I will say that given long-term implications of climate change, you might want that handy.
@TechConnectify After having Mastodon and nothing useful to do with it, because it is eons from Ubiquity, I am glad my favorite YouTuber has changed that, by one unit of measure the size of the change in heating capacity one would get if they bought a physically larger space heater, plus one.
