BenjaminHCCarr

BenjaminHCCarr, 8 hours ago to random

A Fight About #Viruses in the #Air Is Finally Over. Now It’s Time for Healthy #Venting
#WHO now admits the #COVID virus and other #germs spread “through the air.” This plain language may help improve research and action to fight #disease https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-fight-about-viruses-in-the-air-is-finally-over-now-its-time-for-healthy/

BenjaminHCCarr, 10 hours ago to renewableenergy

The One Thing That’s Holding Back the #HeatPump
One recent study found that if everyone in #US got a heat pump, it’d slash emissions in building sector by 36 to 64%, and cut overall national #emissions by 5-9%. (Because they’re fully electric, #heatpumps run on a grid increasingly loaded with #renewableenergy.)
It’s not the technology itself. It’s that we don’t yet have enough trained workers to install heat pumps for full-tilt #decarbonization.
https://www.wired.com/story/heat-pump-worker-shortage/
https://archive.ph/dA2mV