On "Heat Pump Water Heaters in Real Life"

Heat pump water heaters are coming whether you're ready or not, and pretending they're some future technology is a mistake that'll cost you jobs. The real conversation needs to be about installation challenges—space constraints, electrical capacity, noise, integration with existing systems—not just efficiency ratings. If you're not actively learning these units now, you're already behind. By the time they're mandate-driven like in California, the contractors who've installed a dozen of them will own the market while everyone else is scrambling through their first retrofit call.