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America Needs To Install A Lot More Heat Pumps
(www.distilled.earth)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Are heat pumps goo for your wallet or the environment without also having solar panels?
Please don’t take this as me implying something. It’s a question I’ve had for awhile as I’m in a position where I could get a heat pump, but am unsure if it’s a good decision without solar and solace would be difficult for me because of how often my home is shaded.
You can go to googles sunroof project website to see how much footage/mwh a fully sunned home in your area would get. It's been a while but I think they give you kwh, from there depending on the (if in us) eGrid you'd be on you'd be able to see if there would be a meaningful difference in a) energy you'd be saving or generating and b) how bad your average grid is.
The Epa also publishes a tool called power profiler that can help you.
Edit to include that I believe the EPA even has a GitHub that might have how bad each energy plant is? Not sure