The Department of Energy announced that four companies have developed more planet-friendly heat pump designs.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/department-of-energy-doe-heat-pump-challenge/
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/geothermal-heat-pumps
https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/geothermal-heat-pumps
This can take advantage of the fact, that the earth is cooler than ambient temperature in the summer, and warmer than ambient temperature in the winter, thereby reducing the amount of electrical energy needed by the system relative to a heat pump using outside air as a temperature reservoir.
The economics and infrastructure of geothermal heat pump systems may work better if created at a community level:
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/efforts-to-develop-centralized-community-geothermal-heat-pumps-expand-70394257
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2388343-could-a-shared-heat-pump-system-warm-every-home-on-your-street/