Washington Governor Jay Inslee called heat pumps “almost a miraculous solution” to temperature problems made worse by climate change.
9:10 AM MST September 21, 2023
The governors in the alliance represent approximately 60% of the U.S. economy and 55 percent of the country's population. “Even on a winter’s day, heat pumps can take heat from outside, move it inside, and use less energy than if you were heating your house with a furnace," said Stephen Porder, a professor of ecology and assistant provost for sustainability at Brown University. ”A furnace makes heat by burning something, moving heat is more efficient than making it.”
“There is already a huge increase in heat pump installations in the U.S. Heat pump units outsold gas furnace units, previously the most popular type of heating system, last year,” said Amanda Smith, a senior scientist at Project Drawdown, citing “People have been struggling with home heating costs and high energy costs in Maine, especially the last couple of years because we’ve been so over reliant on global fossil fuel energy markets,” said Maine Governor Janet Mills.
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