Heat Pumps: Save The Planet, Save Your Wallet

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(3:28) How To Drop Residential Emissions By 36-64%

(7:30) A Short Primer on Heat Pumps

(16:25) Additional Public Health Benefits of Heat Pumps

(19:05) Innovative Heat Pump Solutions

(22:13) cj’s recommendation: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Capsule Reentry

(25:00) Jeff’s Recommendation: Pee-wee as Himself

If every American home adopted heat pumps, residential emissions could drop by 36-64%, cutting overall U.S. emissions by 5-9%. This climate-friendly appliance, more efficient than furnaces, saves average households over $550 yearly. Federal and state incentives, alongside evolving grid infrastructure towards renewables, make widespread adoption increasingly affordable and crucial for decarbonization, even improving public health through better cooling.

Yet most consumers, at least in the U.S., don’t know that heat pumps exist, let alone are a better, more efficient alternative to traditional furnaces.  Modern heat pumps work in just about every climate (and certainly the vast majority of U.S. climates) and are available in various sizes, configurations, and options.

This episode the guys will attempt to demystify the mystique surrounding heat pumps, and if Jeff has his way, he’ll convince cj to install somewhere between 1 to 4 heat pumps in his home.

What Would Happen if Every American Got a Heat Pump | WIRED

Heat pumps for all? Distributions of the costs and benefits of residential air-source heat pumps in the United States: Joule

Extreme Heat Is a Disease for Cities. Treat It That Way | WIRED

Project Nike - Wikiwand

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
You know, I'm glad Summer's here.
It's not as as angry as I'm sorry.
I'm keeping you awake. I'm so sorry I.
Was just you told me to come over and record a show and now
you're yawning. I don't.
What maybe it's like? 8:00 in the morning.
What do you mean you're fading alittle?
How are you? Today in the morning, but it's
hot. Somebody bring.
Jeff as Jello, please. Quiet please, I notice you put
that little chair that goes up the stairs.
That's a nice ad. My parents had one of those

(00:21):
things with the rails. It's a little rails.
Great. They used to put the laundry on
the chair and oh, that's. Brilliant.
That's brilliant. It's a stair dumb waiter.
Oh my, that is so brilliantly. That is fantastic 2.

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