Juan-Pablo Velez

#energysky #greensky #heatpumps

from the beating heart of Western Civilization?

but almost nobody actually gets off the grid, and rooftop solar folks without storage use the grid all the time

The Primacy of Politics Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Primacy of Politics

@bunkum.us reading this book and I think you'd like it www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

So if your house has higher heat loss, you'll be generally less comfortable and the unit will switch over the resistance backup heat more readily?

(Planning on reading through Home Comfort book!)

A comparison of Electricity and Natural Gas rates with PG&E, a Northern California utility.

The "spark gap" - the price difference between electricity and natural gas - is one of the biggest challenges in heat pump adoption. While heat pumps use 3-4 times less energy than gas furnaces, higher electricity rates can sometimes offset these efficiency gains. (1/3)

How much sealing/insulation is needed to electrify the typical (old) single family detached home in New England and the Upper Midwest, and why?

Thunderbolts* is good actually

Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Intellectuals can have a lil essentialism, as a treat

The better was better in Milwaukee

Fucking _maintenance_. Not "build elevators in 2/3rds of #nymta stations that lack them," but maintenance... bc 10% of existing one don't work on any given day.

Shameful. There are no excuses. Do better
@mta.info!

(And thank you to @riseandresist.bsky.social for mobilizing on this absurd issue.)

Speaking of failings of blue state governance: just helped a struggling mom get her stroller down subway stairs, she was dangerously close to losing control. Elevator was out. Upon leaving the station, ran into protest outside of @mta.info's HQ. Their chant: "what do we want? elevator maintenance!"

No, the bit in West Africa that uses Fahrenheit!

Is that Liberia?

I agree with OP so I will apply confirmation bias to dismiss @zoltannagy.bsky.social's point about familiarity bias

ok i actually lol'd at this one

BIG NEWS: #SB282, the Heat Pump Access Act, advanced in #CALeg yesterday! This critical legislation will streamline the permitting process for heat pumps, making it faster and more affordable to modernize homes with efficient heating & cooling. @scottwiener.bsky.social #BuildingDecarb #EnergySky

plus ça change..

TIL your child is an orthodox Marxist—revolutions aren't made, they happen, necessarily

building the labor movement was much more glamorous in 1925

welfare-state-via-tax-code is not very pro-natal, arguably

It's pretty late in the day for this kind of thing to still be so commonplace

Another year or three and renewables will meet 100% of additional power demand. And then they will keep going from there. The trope that new energy technologies are only ever additive will take some time to die, but die it will - as all pseudo-scientific cargo cults eventually do.

Have you tried asking?

I definitely had to google that... which outs me as being only middlingly online.

Cool! Tell us more =)

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What if instead of spending billions to replace old natgas pipes (that we need to start shutting down), we just gave the affected customers heat pumps? Our latest @switch.box report got an excellent write-up by @colinreports.bsky.social