Heat pumps explained - the future of home heating | Nesta | A sustainable future

What looks like an air conditioning unit could be one of the most important tools in our fight against climate change and help us all decarbonise our homes.
But a national shortage of skilled heat pump installers and an industry which has yet to scale up to meet demand pose two of the biggest challenges to this low carbon technology appearing in more UK homes.

This video answers the following questions:
What is a heat pump?
Why don't more people have heat pumps?
Do we have enough heat pump engineers?
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Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Context
1:10 - What is a heat pump?
2:08 - Why don't more homes have heat pumps?
3:15 - Are there enough heat pump installers?
4:08 - How to increase the number of heat pumps?
5:02 - How can we scale up the heat pump industry?
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