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JdeB (@JdeB) · 01/2024 · Tröts: 3.840 · Folger: 1.128
Di 06.08.2024 21:30
412 #ClimateSolutions #HeatPumps and #Billionaires
"Heat pumps are expensive. What if billionaires bought them for everyone?"
by Matt Simon for Grist [Audio available]
https://grist.org/energy/heat-pumps-expensive-bought/
Quotes:
"It would cost more than $1 trillion, but the savings from lower bills and cleaner air would be just as high."
"A climate scientist half-jokingly once told me that if billionaires really wanted to save the planet, they would buy everyone a heat pump,..."
"But here’s a thought experiment: What if American billionaires really did pool their money together to put a heat pump in every home? No one is expecting billionaires to do such a thing, of course. But the rough calculation reveals that a big investment in heat pumps would actually end up paying for itself."
"The folks at Rewiring America, a nonprofit that advocates for electrification, ran the numbers and found that it would cost $1.2 trillion to put a heat pump in every single-family home — 70 million of them, at $17,000 apiece. As of March, the United States had 737 billionaires with a combined net worth of about $5.5 trillion. So to foot that $1.2 trillion bill, they would each have to contribute about $1.6 billion."
"Amazingly enough, that investment of $1.2 trillion would pay for itself by slashing utility bills and health care costs and also by avoiding the economic damage caused by climate pollution, according to Isabella Peterson, a quantitative research analyst at Rewiring America."
"Lastly, the calculation looked at installing heat pumps in 70 million single-family homes in the U.S., which leaves out apartment-dwellers. If you live in a studio, you don’t need a big heat pump attached to a maze of ducting. In that case, a much cheaper ductless heat pump can attach to the wall. So keep in mind that $1.2 trillion would cover just those 70 million homes, not the quarter of U.S. households in multi-family buildings."
"However, even with current demand — much less, billionaires suddenly agreeing to give everyone a heat pump — there just aren’t enough trained workers to deploy the appliances fast enough, then service them all afterward."
"“We’ve got to stop burning natural gas in our homes,” Wagner said, “and the way to do this is to more or less force heat pumps into the system.”
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