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How This Heat Pump Water Heater is Also a Battery. Go to https://ground.news/undecided for an innovative way to stay fully informed on tech, energy, the climate and more. Save 40% on the Ground News unlimited access Vantage plan with my link. Heat pump water heaters have been around for over a decade. If you follow this channel, you probably know they're three to five times more efficient than a standard electric tank. Maybe you've got one. I do. But here's what most people don't realize. Even if you own a heat pump water heater, it's still pretty dumb. It heats reactively. The tank drops below the setpoint, the compressor kicks on. It doesn't know your schedule. It doesn't know your electricity rates. And it definitely doesn't know when your solar panels are cranking. Two Boston startups think that's a massive missed opportunity. They're treating the water heater as a thermal battery, a cheap, insulated vessel that can store energy as heat, shift electricity use to cheaper hours, and participate in grid services. One of them, Wilmington, Massachusetts-based Cala Systems, invited me to tour their factory. Their predictive software is licensed from the National Renewable Energy Lab. According to a California Energy Commission study, intelligent scheduling on time-of-use rate plans alone can cut costs by 15 to 19 percent beyond what a standard heat pump water heater already saves. So I went inside to find out: is a smart water heater actually worth the premium? Or is "intelligent" just a buzzword bumper sticker slapped on a tank of hot water?

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How Ocean Plastic Isn’t The Problem. Start your 7-day free trial + unlock 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN — head to https://surfshark.com/undecided or use code UNDECIDED at checkout! I was a teenager on a cruise when I first saw ocean pollution up close. Late at night, I saw crew dumping garbage into the ocean. A stream of trash stretching off toward the horizon. But that garbage spilling into the ocean was just the tip of the trashberg. And that trashberg… is mainly plastic. Plastic makes up about 80 percent of marine pollution. And it doesn't always come from where you'd expect. Most people think of waste plastic as straws, bottles, and grocery bags washing off beaches. But when a Dutch nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup sailed out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to scoop it all up… they found something else entirely. More than three-quarters of the plastic wasn’t consumer trash... at all. It didn’t even come from the shore! Even worse, cleaning it up was a lot harder than anyone hoped. So, they did something surprising. They turned around, returned to shore, and started tackling the plastic problem upstream. This is the story of what The Ocean Cleanup discovered once they started studying the problem up close… and why solving ocean plastic might mean turning off the tap, and not just mopping up what's already spilled.

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