Climate Retrofits with Heat Pumps =
Modify, change, remodel to a better way for planet Earth
To Change to a system that does not require fossil fuel!
There is a Huge Demand to
upgrade every home worldwide with Heat Pumps,
the declared leader for Heating and Cooling
our places of Shelter.
In this post:
Huge Worldwide Demand !
Reversing Climate, One Home / Building At A Time – Bloc Power
My Crazy Idea
Wait a minute! Let’s back up….and at Sea?
This OPT Buoy might work in a moon pool to retrofit ships?
Why ships of the future will run on electricity
…a list at the bottom of other posts about wind and waves and Retrofits.
Better Buildings, Block by Block
<< This is what New York City is doing!
….all communities can!
CLIMATE FIXES!
World Green Recovery, CO2 reduction and lots more Jobs could go much quicker with Retrofits of existing buildings.
Huge Worldwide Demand for Climate Retrofits!
Big Demand
“Urban Retrofits” is one solution that every community, worldwide needs to help us harmonize with planet Earth. Can your business get on-board?
What is Climate Retrofits?
Energy and water efficiency retrofits are upgrades, changes, improvements to a building, no matter what the size; Family Home, Rental Apartment Building, Office Building, etc.
The improvements reduce energy and/or water use and improve how your building operates; from something simple like updating the lighting in your common area to larger projects, like replacing your oil&gas boiler.
Lots of room for small businesses.
Can your business be part of this?
Let’s stop talking about it! >>> Let’s do it!
Great for every community on planet Earth!
Reversing Climate Change, One Building At A Time
Donnel Baird’s company went to the people, the coop owners, with a proposal. BlocPower offered to manage the building’s heating and cooling. The company would install new equipment, and put solar panels on the roof. “Solar panels aren’t just for rich people, or for White people. They’re for everybody,” Baird said.
BlocPower was launched in 2013. Now in 2026, Mr. Baird has gone on to other things, but his basic idea is living on BlocPower.
One of the best parts – The financing – BlocPower’s Services: It could be that the residents will NOT have to pay anything up-front. They get both cooling and heating, their old equipment can go on to Remanufacturing and they are helping the planet move to lower greenhouse emissions.
FOR NEW YORK CITY, BlocPower was able to develope a leasing system that offers these benefits to the building owner/s. I am not sure they are still available, but it is something other companies to strive toward.
BlocPower is a Brooklyn-based energy technology startup rapidly greening American cities. Since its founding in 2013, the company has completed energy projects in 1,000s of buildings and delivers results ahead of schedule and under budget. BlocPower uses its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of urban clean energy projects and its customers are saving 20-40% on their energy bills each year.
Dream come true with Climate Retrofits!
Dec 15, 2022 – Meet the First-Ever Dreamer of the Year: Donnel Baird, CEO of BlocPower. Donnel’s story demonstrates how the pursuit of one dream can empower the dreams of thousands. His company BlocPower, a clean energy tech company generating climate resilience and community wealth, is changing lives.
This can be done anywhere in the World! There is no excuse.
Technology is here!
There are heavy recommendations that this is the way to go!
Climate Retrofits with Heat Pumps
June 2020 from the IEA.org
- Heat pumps, powered by low-emissions electricity, are the central technology in the global transition to secure and sustainable heating.
- Policies have helped accelerate heat pump uptake since 2015.
- More efforts needed
- Electric-powered heat pumps – a powerful way to replace fossil fuels.
- Heat pump market growth is uneven, most installations in new houses.
Reduce barriers to greater market adoption, particularly for the renovation market The share of residential heat supplied by heat pumps globally must triple by 2030.
Deploying renovation packages involving both building shell elements and equipment upgrades would also reduce heat pump installation costs, which can make up around 30% of the total capital cost of an air-source heat pump and 65-85% for a ground-source pump.
Heat pump deployment should also anticipate the power system transformation required to meet the SDS. For instance, the options of connecting to on-site solar PV panels and participating in demand-response markets will make heat pumps more attractive.
Another hurricane, another power outage? In the state of Louisiana, one apartment complex is keeping the lights on—a beacon of hope in New Orleans….
St. Peter Residential apartment complex, which opened one month before the pandemic began, was built for emergency functionality using an 8-hour solar battery and a panel array on its roof—and it kept the units running after Hurricane Ida made landfall.
A $7.4 million affordable housing complex, this project will likely serve as the first in the state of Louisiana to achieve net-zero energy consumption, meaning the total amount of energy used by the building is roughly equal to the amount of renewable energy created onsite.
Utilizing a combination of passive and active strategies, including a highly efficient *HVAC system, lighting controls/fixtures, and appliances, the energy demanded to maintain the health and comfort of occupants is minimal. In tandem with these interventions, a partnership between SBP and Entergy provided the means for 450 solar panels and a battery array capable of producing and storing the same amount of power required to operate the building year-round.
Planet and People-friendly heating and cooling
International Energy Agency (IEA) – Heat Pumps are a proven way to provide secure and sustainable heating and cooling.
Heat pumps, powered by low‐emissions electricity, are the central technology in the global transition to secure and sustainable heating. Heat pumps currently available on the market are three‐to‐five times more energy efficient than natural gas boilers. They reduce households’ exposure to fossil fuel price spikes, which has been made all the more urgent by the ongoing global energy crisis.
Gradient – Welcome to the great indoors –
Comfortable ALL YEAR ROUND.
Until now, advanced heat pump technology has required professional installation with hefty price tags. Gradient brings it to you in a beautiful, easy-to-install package.
Our heat pump technology is the first of its kind. It’s powerful, efficient and planet-friendly — made for people who are not willing to compromise their values or aesthetics.
Four easy steps to ‘ahhhh’.
Our installation bracket enables you to install Gradient safely and securely without fear of dropping or breaking it — no tools required. It is designed to be installed by two laypeople — not professionals. Our do-it-yourself (DIY) installation approach generally takes about 15 minutes.
another kind of Climate Retrofit
that has not been invented yet ……
Here’s a crazy Idea,
but maybe someone agrees with me!
Let’s think about another issue. Can electricity solve the
Shipping Fuel problem?
There were guys out there working on wave power from salvaged ships. They had big ideas. Wave Energy is possibly the strongest natural power energy on planet Earth….it is 25 times stronger than solar or wind.
One gargantuan project was planning to use wave energy:
Re-using Old Ships to capture Wave Energy- offshore to connect to the grid.
Dozens of “moon pools” could be cut into the hull of a repurposed oil tanker to turn it into a mobile power station
Generating Power, offshore from the waves of the World’s Oceans/
The WaveShip has the capability to capture the optimum wave density in any offshore location, convert the energy, store it, and transport it back to shore for use.
Can Wave Power produce Electricity to run a Ship’s Engines?
Could each ship have at least one Moon Pool to contain such a unit?
The hole is in the centre of the [drill] ship, it’s 22 feet wide. It’s called a “moon pool” and is an essential part of our drilling operations. (On a drill Ship] the drill pipe hangs from the top of the derrick, passes through this hole, into the ocean and all the way down to the seafloor.
We asked JR Operations Superintendent Steve Midgley how he’d explain this concept to a 10 year old. Simple, he replied, just think of an inner tube. It’s got a hole in the middle but doesn’t sink. Even if you push it down, it won’t sink. In fact, it will probably pop back up and hit you in the face!
So the Moon Pool is full of pulsating waves! Waves are 25 times denser than the power that solar or Wind can produce.
Drill ships have Moon Pools in them and you can see how the waves elevate….Look in the lower left hand corner of this video.
Maritime Research Institute Netherlands – MARIN
What if these “moon pools”
were produced with a kind of
energy converter
“from physical to mechanical energy“
up & down, up & down……
on a small scale just enough
to retrofit every boat & ship
to wave electricity
on the seas!
no need for any kind of fuel!
On every boat, in place of a fuel tank
– a “moon pool”
pulsating with the waves
to generate electric power.
http://www.refresco.org
A Worldwide
Electric Shipping Industry !
NET ZERO!
Can we take this Buoy that looks like it would work in a moon pool and get a retrofit unit designed (like the wave ships) to convert small boats to electric power?
PB3 POWERBUOY® – An Autonomous Solution for Persistent Power
The PB3, from Ocean Power Technologies, is specifically targeted to the ocean observing market needs, and delivers a continuous reliable power of 350 Watts for instruments, data analysis, telecommunication, and data transmission to shore. As demonstrated in prior ocean tests, the buoy maintained a relatively vertical orientation of 10 – 15 degrees off vertical during storm waves.
Feb 26, 2019 – Discover how the OPT PB3 PowerBuoy® converts wave energy
Why out in the middle of the water?
The same mechanism could be put in a moon pool in the belly of a ship and generate electricity to run the ship!
and I’m Asking……………
If somebody can design a device where the Rotating Drive Shaft and the Generator are inside a Moon Pool.…it would be possible to produce more than 350 watts of electricity to run a ship’s engines – no?
??? China First ???
China Delivers First Domestically Built Pure-Electric Export Container Vessel
July 24, 2026 China has delivered its first domestically built pure-electric inland container vessel for export, with the ship set to begin operations in Vietnam as demand grows for cleaner inland shipping.
The ship arrived at Rugao Port in Nantong, Jiangsu province, on Tuesday for final testing before departing for Vietnam in four days, according to its builder, Shandong New Energy Shipbuilding Co.
The vessel was built for French shipping company CMA CGM and is the company’s first export order for a domestically built, fully electric container ship designed specifically for inland waterway operations.
Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Ladies & Gentlemen with the engineering
and creative knowhow!
On every boat in the place of
the fuel tank – a moon pool
pulsating with the waves
to generate electric power.
per ship WAVE POWER
RETROFIT UNITS
HUGE DEMAND!
NET ZERO!
Climate Retrofits
posts about wind, waves and Retrofits / emissions renovations…..
I Say The Future Is VERTICAL Axis Wind Turbines!
WIND POWER Back Down To Earth – VAWT
Shipping’s Carbon Footprint – Your Small Business >> Your Vote
Wave Power Is Very Very “Energy Dense”!
Climate Retrofits On Land Or At Sea
Urban Energy Retrofits For Existing Buildings
CLEAN AIR – IS, ALREADY – IN OUR GRASP!