Crazy fact

[janrosenow@mastodon.energy]

Crazy fact:

Even if you just installed a new gas boiler ripping it out and replacing it with a heat pump makes sense from a carbon perspective.

Carbon emissions associated with manufacturing the boiler and the heat pump are offset in less than 2 years.

After that the heat pump will save carbon year on year.

More here

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/

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[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@janrosenow @dgoldsmith
What’s the sunk carbon cost on the manufacture of a new heat pump? I can’t imagine it changes the conclusion that much, but if this is about replacing an existing boiler, those curves shouldn’t all met at t=0.