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Good. But make sure people can get good electricity for their homes. Can’t have buildings swap gas heating for heat pumps run on coal energy. As for the cost o
by alkonaut 4y ago
Good. But make sure people can get good electricity for their homes. Can’t have buildings swap gas heating for heat pumps run on coal energy.
As for the cost of heat pumps and electricity: it’s not expensive. My new pump that heats my whole home (through radiators and in-floor water circuits) plus contains a large hot water tank cost $6k and will last 15 years or so. It has a COP of about 3 and I pay around 0.10 per kWh of electricity. Total electricity bill is around $2500 per year.
- timbit42 4y agoYes, but in spite of that, EVs running on coal-generated electricity are still cleaner than ICEVs. Homes heated by heat pumps running on coal-generated electricity should still be cleaner than heating by natural gas. This is because it is much easier to reduce emissions at the point of generation than at the point of use. Also, the use of coal is plummeting in the US.