He also wants to speed up sales of home appliances that use efficient heat pumps--made, of course, by domestic manufacturers.
Heat pumps sometimes break, and they can have a hard time quickly boosting the temperature when you raise the thermostat.
In Sweden, it says, policies have led to 10% of houses installing heat pumps, devices which extract and concentrate heat from the ground.
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Roger Nordman from the Swedish SP Technical Institute, who reviewed the EST trials, said domestic heat pumps were already well established in Sweden.
"Heat pumps will be a crucial component of our low-carbon future, provided they perform well, " said David Mackay, the Department of Energy and Climate Change's chief scientific adviser.
Whereas heat for domestic-scale commercial installations could come from solar technologies or even heat pumps, it is widely acknowledged that the primary market can only be supplied by biomass.
For example, if you plan to add geothermal heat pumps, residential small wind turbines or solar energy systems, the credit is equal to 30% of the cost with no upper limit.
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Sabre Industries, which provides wireless towers, monopoles and transmission structures, and Nobao Renewable Energy, a Shanghai-based provider of heat pumps used to cool commercial buildings, did not price as expected.
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Much of the avoided energy consumption will come from the switch to carbon-neutral district heating (rural households will switch from oil, natural gas, and electric heating to heat pumps and biomass burners).
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Among the energy-saving options, two promising technology switches are the electrification of transportation (electric vehicles can be about four times as energy-efficient as standard fossil-fuel vehicles) and the use of electric-powered heat pumps to deliver winter heating and hot water (heat pumps can be four times as energy-efficient as standard heaters).
And the cost curve of the collection technology solar panels, small and large wind turbines, geothermal heat pumps, small hydro, tidal and wave technology, biomass converters is following the same cost curve dynamics as when we went from centralized mainframe computers to desktop computers and from centralized telephone communication to distributed cell phone networks.
In terms of other eco-features, the new EACH building has ground heat-pumps, but not solar panels.
With the loss of inefficient internal combustion engines along with the use of heat-pumps and better insulation in the building sector etc.
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The thoughtful image, taken by an extraordinary talent, draws the eye and pumps the heat.
One being tested at Victoria station pumps river water through heat exchangers.
The water is further heated by five solar-powered electrical pumps, to create radiant heat coming up through the wooden floorboards.
The tsunami destroyed the diesel generators that provide power to drive the pumps that circulate the water coolant through the reactor that removes decay heat.
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