Heat Pumps: How cold rivers could heat your home

Heating our homes with cold water! Sounds absurd? It’s not. Heat pumps are revolutionizing the way we heat and cool our homes and cities. We went to the German city of Mannheim to find out how.

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Credits:
Reporter: Tim Schauenberg
Camera: Simon Baingo
Editor: Frederik Willmann
Superivising Editors: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge

Read more:
IEA: The future of heat pump globally:
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4713780d-c0ae-4686-8c9b-29e782452695/TheFutureofHeatPumps.pdf

Heat pumps potential in Germany:
https://static.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin/Projekte/2022/2022-04_DE_Scaling_up_heat_pumps/2022_Scaling_up_heat_pumps_in_Germany.pdf

Fraunhofer IEG: On large scale heat pumps in Germany:
https://www.ieg.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ieg/deutsch/dokumente/ver%C3%B6ffentlichungen/Rollout_Grosswaermepumpen_Angora_Fraunhofer%20IEG.pdf

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:43 What's the problem?
01:04 What my ice bath has to do with heating
01:37 Heat from the river
02:08 This is how it works
04:32 It all started with a fridge
05:40 Substituting coal, oil and gas?
06:30 Environmental risks
08:46 Smaller units and the money question
10:32 Conclusion

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