Heat pumps are the same technology as air conditioning, just with inputs and outputs hooked up in reverse. It's not magic, and there's over a half of century of

Heat pumps are the same technology as air conditioning, just with inputs and outputs hooked up in reverse. It's not magic, and there's over a half of century of experience in maintenance of AC units. Scaling up production and installed base of heat pumps will benefit from economies of scale, and make them cheaper to install and maintain. UK can produce more wind energy than it needs. The grid needs more interconnects, but it's a solvable problem. I'm really annoyed when people say "the grid can't handle it!". 100 years ago it couldn't handle electric lighting, but we didn't stick to candles. We've built the grid to handle what it needed, and we'll expand it to handle more. > back to the drawing board And do what? We're already overdue for preventing the climate crisis, and need solutions yesterday. We can't wait for heating with unicorn farts. The realistic options are either staying with gas boilers or switching to heat pumps. Gas is highly problematic from both environmental and geopolitical reasons, so we need to make heat pumps work. > Odd to conflate electric heating and heat pumps. There is an important efficiency distinction between heat pumps and resistive heating.