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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.

15 mo on HN

Heat Pumps: the Future of Home Heating

Technology Connections
17 HN recommender · 2021–2026
11 mo on HN

James Burke Connections, Ep. 1 "The Trigger Effect"

DRS_Education
12 HN recommender · 2019–2026
8 mo on HN

Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now

Technology Connections
9 HN recommender · 2022–2023
7 mo on HN

What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage?

Practical Engineering
6 HN recommender · 2021–2026
7 mo on HN

It’s Time To Break Up With Our Gas Stoves | Climate Town

Climate Town
10 HN recommender · 2021–2025
6 mo on HN

Ground Source / Geothermal Heat Pumps and Other Info

Technology Connections
6 HN recommender · 2021–2026
5 mo on HN

Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping

Technology Connections
5 HN recommender · 2022–2023
5 mo on HN

Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think

Practical Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2024–2025
5 mo on HN

Why don't Americans use electric kettles?

Technology Connections
5 HN recommender · 2022–2025
5 mo on HN

What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid?

Practical Engineering
6 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HN

Best fan placement to move air through the house

Matthias random stuff
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HN

World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)

Practical Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HN

Why Air Quality Matters

David Heinemeier Hansson
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HN

How To Make Infrared Cooling Paint (Electricity Free Air Conditioning)

NightHawkInLight
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HN

James Burke Legend Connections 1 The Trigger Effect

Tim Callinan
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HN

Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained

Technology Connections
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HN

Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them

Technology Connections
5 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HN

Humidifiers: Simpler is better?

Technology Connections
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HN

Britain peak power demand (from BBC TV series: Britain from Above)

fiddyschmitt
4 HN recommender · 2013–2026
4 mo on HN

The Problem with Solar Energy in Africa

Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HN

Perhaps the weakest link in the US electrical system

Technology Connections
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HN

Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow

Kirsten Dirksen
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HN

California's Renewable Energy Problem

Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
4 mo on HN

The US electrical system is not 120V

Technology Connections
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HN

The Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage

School of Convergence Science
3 HN recommender · 2019–2021
3 mo on HN

Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business Insider

Business Insider
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HN

Vertical Bifacial Solar Panel Performance Results Part 1

Projects With Everyday Dave
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HN

GSMT - Dan Holohan, Author: "The Lost Art of Steam Heating"

The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
3 HN recommender · 2018–2021
3 mo on HN

Why I Cook With Induction

Jon Kung
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN

Earth-cooled, shipping container underground CA home for 30K

Kirsten Dirksen
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HN

Distinguished Lecturer Series: Building Science - Adventures in Building Science

Berkeley Lab
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HN

This Is Your Brain On Stale Air

Tom Scott
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

Solar Powered Air Conditioner!

Tech Ingredients
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HN

Problems with gas stovetops | weak, dirty and dangerous

Adam Ragusea
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HN

Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great.

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

Power is not energy: why the difference matters

Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026