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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
...I think such a high-class fuel should at least be running a heat pump, but with fracking in the mix now, I'd rather quit entirely...
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I agree with your reluctance to take part in the Great Aquifer Destruction that is known as 'fracking'. But just for information, there was a company that made a Natural Gas powered internal combustion engine driven heat pump. I'm not sure as to why it is no longer made.
There is also the possibility of Co-Gen where you have an engine that drives a generator, and you also harvest the heat from the engine.
BUT... You are no different from any other human whose first line of thinking on the subject of home heating, is the heat source.
Your greatest successes will be when your efforts are given over to
preventing heat loss.
This begins with eliminating infiltration as much as possible, and then insulating as much as possible, and then window reduction/replacement with high performance windows.
-AC