Permanently installing a heat pump system in a building is expensive. But new window units can deliver many of the benefits with far less cost and go with renters when they move.
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Many homeowners could save money on their heating bills by installing heat pumps – but not everyone, and not everywhere.
The public is largely open to moving away from fossil fuel use for residential heating and hot water.
Heat pumps are relatively scarce in the UK – but that could be about to change.
The UK is next to last in Europe for heat pump sales – psychologists explain why take up is so low.
Existing decarbonisation measures are often unsuitable for the least efficient homes – failing to improve their performance will trap vulnerable people in fuel poverty.
Heat pumps use a fraction of the energy of traditional electric or gas heaters, which means they slash both energy costs and emissions.
Shared ground heat exchanges could provide low-carbon heating for up to 80% of homes in the UK, research suggests.
Heat pumps are the technology of choice for heating and cooling buildings more efficiently and with fewer carbon emissions than furnaces and air conditioning.
Heat pumps use electricity to transfer warmth from outside to inside a house.
Priority number one for the world’s leading nations in Marrakech ought to be taking carbon out of heat.
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Lecturer in Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
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Chancellor's Fellow in Sustainable Design, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Development
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Professor of Sustainability, University of Dayton
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Research Fellow, University of Leeds
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Senior Industry Fellow, Environment and Planning, RMIT University
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Professor of Psychology, City St George's, University of London
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Associate Professor in Building Performance Simulation, UCL
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Associate Professor in Environment, Energy and Resources, UCL
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Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
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Professor of Energy Policy, Member of Fuel Poverty Evidence and Trustee of the Fuel Poverty Research Network, Sheffield Hallam University
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Environmental Fellow, Center for the Environment, Harvard University; Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder