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Northstar1989 t1_j4p4bnu wrote

Reply to comment by Outrageous-Echo-765 in Fossil fuels already peaked, growth in renewables exponential by ObtainSustainability

Sadly, heat pumps often don't work as well as expected.

My mother is obsessed with getting one, but she lives in New England. I keep trying to explain they're not rated for New England level winter heating...

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Outrageous-Echo-765 t1_j4pi8si wrote

they work just fine in norway and iceland, you just need to get an appropriate model.

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Northstar1989 t1_j4sueay wrote

Not the ones largely sold in the United States, at least.

Also, Iceland has much, much greater geothermal potential than New England: so that one, at least, really is a poor comparison.

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