“Theoretically, what would happen if every US household got a heat pump? According to a new study in the journal Joule, it could slash the emissions in the residential sector by a staggering 36 to 64 percent, and cut overall US emissions by 5 to 9 percent.”
@clive@br00t4c Here's your periodic reminder that the US is offering ridiculously generous incentives to replace your furnace/AC with a heat pump (among other upgrades) as a result of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act... Easy calculator here! https://www.rewiringamerica.org/app/ira-calculator
In southern US climates especially they are an absolute no-brainer to me. I cannot understand why anyone would want methane piped into their house anymore, but they are still building new homes that way. Bonkers!
@clive@br00t4c There are new innovations with radiative cooling panels that have big opportunity to make the cooling mode of heat pumps event more efficient. https://www.skycoolsystems.com/
And the electrical grid would fail. But it is the direction we need to go in ... the path to lower emissions is just not as short and cheap as we would like.
@clive@br00t4c to me, as a European, it always seemed to be as almost every US household already got a heat pump. But exclusively using it on reverse, to cool during summer. They're calling it A/C.
Lived in the South all my life and this article was a mystery to me, lol. Before AC (yes, I'm that old) I lived in houses with a fireplace or wood burning stove for heat and then, post AC, well, those all do heat too. I've never lived in a house with anything else.
Right? Someone asked me the other day how we did it. I was like, there was no other option, lol. For us it was play outside, windows almost always open, and a big box fan at the foot of the bed at night.
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