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Power grid, heating & buildings Videos Recommended on Hacker News (68)

Power grid, heating & buildings is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 68 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 and 2026 — 196 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Electric power systems: power grid failures, Texas ERCOT, transmission, utilities, heat pumps, HVAC, home electrification, building efficiency, insulation, energy at home.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Heat Pumps: the Future of Home Heating: “Start here for a good introduction to heat pumps and how they are so efficient” — an HN commenter, 2021.

2 mo on HN

Yanis Varoufakis exposes Europe's energy scam

DiEM25
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HN

Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home

Kirsten Dirksen
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HN

How to Make a DIY Air Filter | Ask This Old House

This Old House
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HN

The hidden background noise that can catch criminals

Tom Scott
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HN

What is a rocket mass heater?

paul wheaton
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HN

Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How

Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HN

Blower Door Test

Matt Risinger
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HN

Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about

Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HN

The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium

Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
1 mo on HN

Batteries aren't the only way to store energy. Here's another.

Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Air Conditioning isn't free... but we're close.

Tech Ingredients
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

A simple water heater is more clever than it seems

Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X

Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN

Inside a smart meter, and the REAL problem with them.

bigclivedotcom
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Passive House - Fresh Air System Install & Costs (Zehnder)

Matt Risinger
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

The artificial skylight that you won't believe isn't real

Lux Magazine
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HN

Inside a heated shower head. (suicide shower)

bigclivedotcom
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HN

I Live 500 Feet From A Bitcoin Mine. My Life Is Hell.

More Perfect Union
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

The Power Grid: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN

Authorized Personnel Only - How to Start and Sync a 400,000 Watt Turbine Hydroelectric Generator

Chris Boden
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
0 mo on HN

We Went to the Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning

More Perfect Union
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026
0 mo on HN

Britain's largest battery is actually a lake

Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HN

Spacer Installation on 765,000 volt line

Matt Brink
0 HN recommender · 2018–2022
0 mo on HN

Orkney - Island of the Future | Fully Charged

Everything Electric CARS
0 HN recommender · 2016–2020
0 mo on HN

Electric Vehicle Charging Technology: Urban Electric - Pop-Up Charger | Fully Charged

Everything Electric CARS
0 HN recommender · 2020–2025
0 mo on HN

This is Why Heat Pumps May NOT Be The Future

Skill Builder
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022
0 mo on HN

How to Heat a Swimming Pool with an Air Conditioner | Ask This Old House

This Old House
0 HN recommender · 2019–2026
0 mo on HN

Aurora Test Footage

MuckRock
0 HN recommender · 2021–2024
0 mo on HN

The 'duck curve' is solar energy's greatest challenge

Vox
0 HN recommender · 2018–2019
0 mo on HN

Fluorescent Lights under High Voltage Power Lines!

emfhomesafety
0 HN recommender · 2012–2021
0 mo on HN

Gas stoves aren't really that fast - even standard electric is faster!

Technology Connextras
0 HN recommender · 2023–2026
0 mo on HN

Grid: Renewable Baseload Power from a single desert location. Enough for 7 million homes!

Just Have a Think
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022