ODGreen
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- Comment on UK government hires ‘nudge unit’ to help dispel heat pump myths 5 days ago:
You still have and use a heat pump though. The propaganda in the UK is telling everyone that heat pumps are not perfect, so best throw up your hands and keep burning fossil fuels forever. In reality some combo of insulation, heat pump, and backup system can work just fine.
- Comment on UK government hires ‘nudge unit’ to help dispel heat pump myths 5 days ago:
One of the longest running field studies of heat pumps in renovated properties shows that extensive renovations and insulation upgrades are not necessary to install a heat pump. Good fabric efficiency will keep running costs down, but this is also true for homes heated by gas and oil boilers.
- Comment on So Starbucks’ CEO commutes to work by private jet? Let’s not pretend the super-rich care about the planet 4 months ago:
The commute itself? Hard to say. But according to the article, a billionaire produces emissions equivalent to a million average people.
There are 3,311 billionaires.
Once they are eliminated, that’s the emissions of 3.3 billion people taken care of.