Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet (www.canarymedia.com)
Yes, heat pumps slash emissions even if powered by a dirty grid | Installing a heat pump now is better for the climate, even on U.S. electricity generated mostly by fossil fuels. Here’s why (www.canarymedia.com)
The article doesn’t go into it, but a key advantage they have is that heat pumps move heat, rather then trying to generate it. So they can move a lot more heat into your house than would be generated by running the electricity they use through a resistor. This makes them effectively more than 100% efficient (the exact amount...
California regulators cut incentives for rooftop solar even further (www.canarymedia.com)
A new wave of startups is tackling a huge emissions source: wildfires (www.canarymedia.com)
The growing field of “firetech” is reinventing the age-old practice of prescribed burns and devising other novel methods of preventing and suppressing fires.
Chart: Is LNG worse for the climate than coal? Research suggests that liquefied natural gas can have a bigger emissions footprint than coal, undermining LNG’s status as a “bridge fuel.” (www.canarymedia.com)
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Texas got more electricity from solar than coal last month (www.canarymedia.com)
Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target (www.canarymedia.com)
Can corn ethanol really help decarbonize US air travel? (www.canarymedia.com)
Yes, it’s possible to electrify a home on just 100 amps (www.canarymedia.com)
EVs are one step closer to becoming roaming grid batteries (www.canarymedia.com)
Solar installations are set to break global, US records in 2023 (www.canarymedia.com)
Chemical fertilizer is a climate disaster. Can high-tech biology fix it? (www.canarymedia.com)
Burying plant waste removes CO2 from the air. But can it scale? (www.canarymedia.com)
The biggest solar-plus-storage project in the US just came online (www.canarymedia.com)
Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet (www.canarymedia.com)
I’ll note that the US government has a list of qualified contractors who install them as well
The first all-electric tugboat in the US is about to launch (www.canarymedia.com)
A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant (www.canarymedia.com)
How to get people to kick fossil fuels out of their homes (www.canarymedia.com)
Chart: Nearly all new US power plants built in 2024 will be clean energy | Renewables, batteries and nuclear will add up to 96% of all new power capacity constructed this year, per federal data. (www.canarymedia.com)
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California’s rooftop solar policy is killing its rooftop solar industry (www.canarymedia.com)
Florida is now adding more solar power than any other state (www.canarymedia.com)
California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery (www.canarymedia.com)
Meanwhile, in Southern California, nonprofit news site Canary Media reports that an old gas combustion plant is being replaced by a “power bank” named Nova....
Renters, you too can get a heat pump — a micro one, at least (www.canarymedia.com)
Solarpunk is going mainstream. This couple's $1M Kickstarter proves it (www.canarymedia.com)
“Mainstream” isn’t a good label in my book, but I like the enthusiasm 👍
As Europe shifts to clean energy, does it still need so much US LNG? (www.canarymedia.com)
