Comment on 25 States Agree To Quadruple Number Of Heat Pumps In America

• Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What are they trying to do with that map? Why not just use a regular map so LA isn’t west of TX?

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  • FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People try and make maps of the states where everyone is equal sized a lot for graphics because it’s hard to label smaller states in an easily readable way. This messed up the geography though as seen above.

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• ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That looks pretty blue (off the top of my British head).

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  • FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s has a number of blue states but there’s a number of differences too.

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• cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like to shit on GOP states as much as anyone… But the southern states are all already going to have A/C in most building. While I realize that isn’t the same, and heat pumps are more versatile. There isn’t nearly as much need as there is in say Maine or Washington, additionally most buildings in the south are designed to keep heat out and stay cool because it’s always gotten and stayed hot there.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The fact that southern states already have A/C is even more of a reason they should be leading the charge towards heat pumps. The fact that industry-standard practice around here is installing entire natural gas furnaces instead of just adding a damn reversing valve to the A/C we were always gonna install anyway is just flat-out moronic.

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• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wtf, North Dakota?

  You guys stand to benefit from this.

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  • FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_Formation#:~:text=Most%20Bakken%20drilling%20and%20production%20has%20been%20in,than%20ten%20percent%20of%20all%20US%20oil%20production.

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