Joe Wachunas
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Latest publication
- Aug 10, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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A. O. Smith Partners with Panasonic to Bring a CO2 Split HPWH to Market - CleanTechnica (opens the original)
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To add to this excitement, A. O. Smith, one of the “big three” manufacturers in US water heating, just released a new split HPWH called the Voltex X, partnering with Panasonic on the product. I sat down with A. O. Smith in our podcast Heat Pumps and Cardigans to talk about the Voltex X, to see some of its potential benefits and challenges, and to discuss how it is rolling out across the country. While most buildings can use a unitary HPWH (where the tank and compressor are joined together), some
Fight Forest Fires With Heat Pumps - CleanTechnica (opens the original)
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Nothing quite drives home the horrors of climate change like forest fires and wildfire smoke. We living on the West Coast have had a couple more years to experience the nightmare that the Midwest and East Coast are experiencing for the second time in 3 years. I’ll never forget 2017 when the wildfire smoke descended on my city in Oregon for days at a time. We couldn’t go outside and the skies had a frightening, apocalyptic red to them. Clean air, which we all took for granted, was suddenly taken
Split Heat Pump Water Heaters Are Having a Moment, Spurred on by Innovation Prize - CleanTechnica (opens the original)
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Split heat pump water heaters (HPWH), where the water tank is separated from the compressor, are having a moment. After a decade of just having one model in the US, we have two new technologies that entered the market in the last year and a prize that will announce the winner of a competition to make a low-cost, low-profile split HPWH next month. Let’s take a look at why split HPWHs are an important form factor, what buildings they might work in, and what all has been happening. A standard Ameri
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