Profile avatar
energysmartwv.bsky.social
Everyone deserves a truly healthy and comfortable home. I teach how to do it. It almost always involves a heat pump aka two way air conditioner. One way ACs are dumb. #energysky #heatpumps ⚡️ 🔌 💡 www.natethehousewhisperer.com & electrifyeverything.net
1,133 posts 2,210 followers 223 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 13 Comments 37

I’m using 20% of the gas I used last year in our first winter with the heat pump. That was my goal. I need this today.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

SmartThings gets Matter 1.4 support for water heaters, heat pumps, and more

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“These formerly blackout- and brownout-prone states have achieved an unprecedented level of grid reliability through massive deployments of battery storage, despite facing increasingly severe weather challenges.” www.utilitydive.com/news/califor...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I’m a big Insulation and air sealing guy, but if decarbonization is the goal, heat pumps are the solution. (Hybrids will play a big role.)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It just rained hard today. Water is flowing right out of the dirt basement floor in our latest purchase. What would you do to fix this? (I already fixed a similar issue at another of our houses.) #housewhispering #watermanagement #energysky

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Great piece. There's likely a lot of value in trying to link envelope upgrades with heat pump sizing, but the energy savings are just not enough. 🔌💡

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The midwest lags the nation in heat pump ownership at only 20%. Hybrids (furnace + heat pump rather than furnace + AC) are the fastest way to shift this. Every one way AC that gets replaced will be a 2 way AC aka heat pump. The rest of the country is around 40-50% penetration, lots of improvement

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

I’m LOVING the Edifice Complex Podcast with Joseph Lstiburek! This section on the “modeling cult” cracked me up and rang really true. When a model comes up with an answer that doesn’t match reality, the odds are high that the model is wrong.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Data in support of hybrid fossil/heat pump installations @energysmartwv.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Feel Good Homes by Drew Tozer is a great book that everyone who is looking at buying a new heating or cooling system or sells heating and cooling systems should read. It’s a far shorter read than my book, and has a really fun breezy style. I liked it well enough to write the foreword.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Yes! The most important thing to do is to fuel switch. Put in the heat pump first, and insulation later is just icing on the cake!

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

1/ New paper: The bread and butter of climate action are 1) cleaning up the grid💨🌞and 2) electrifying everything we can⚡. But electrifying buildings often requires costly electrical upgrades💰. My students and I built and tested a software system that lets people skip those upgrades. 🧵

submitted 26 days ago • 32 comments

My Rheem heat pump water heater makes this noise after the compressor runs 2-3 hours. I hardly let the compressor run, but the EcoNet app often has a mind of its own. It’s loud as hell. Freaked us all out at 1 am once, thought it was the smoke alarm.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments