LifeIsARollerCoaster
LifeIsARollerCoaster t1_j9g3pc0 wrote
Reply to comment by ghostridur in Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America's Oil-Rich Frontier by dolphins3
The math is different for people who have solar panels or those who have much higher gas prices
LifeIsARollerCoaster t1_j9fbvwp wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America's Oil-Rich Frontier by dolphins3
So if a California power company buys power from a coal power plant in Utah you equate that to say that California exports pollution. Amazing!
Surely the Utah power plant has a choice to generate power from other sources no?
Don’t worry that deal won’t go on for long, along with the money and jobs. California has a 100% renewable power mandate so it will be phased out. They have been adding a ton of power storage projects to manage the intermittency of renewable power
LifeIsARollerCoaster t1_j9dshpy wrote
Reply to comment by porican in Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America's Oil-Rich Frontier by dolphins3
My state is phasing out coal. Currently it’s less than .5% of the state power supply
LifeIsARollerCoaster t1_j9ds4fk wrote
Reply to comment by ACorania in Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America's Oil-Rich Frontier by dolphins3
Electric space heaters are close to 100% energy efficient. Gas heaters have over 80% energy efficiency. That’s the physics part. The cost part depends on the price of gas and price of electricity. If gas prices are higher like in the last few months or If you have solar panels then the cost of electricity is less and you will save money like I did by using a space heater
LifeIsARollerCoaster t1_j9dcyzy wrote
Reply to comment by ACorania in Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America's Oil-Rich Frontier by dolphins3
I bought a cheap electric space heater for under $50. It’s not the same as a heat pump but it works and I am not burning oil to use it.
Demand spurs mass production which lowers costs. Quite sure heat pumps will majorly drop in price in the next few years as there is high demand
LifeIsARollerCoaster t1_j9c3jsq wrote
You can always count on money and costs to be a guaranteed motivation for switching to greener options
LifeIsARollerCoaster t1_j57ndtp wrote
Reply to comment by ELB2001 in Toyota to Convert Older Cars to Eco-Friendly Models to Curb Emissions by renome
All your information and reasoning is incorrect and outdated. RE is not actually rare. It’s just the name for that type of elements. Because of demand there is increasing amount of mining that will come online for those materials.
The batteries are not going to get thrown out. lots of recycling is already happening and a lot more will happen as more EV cars start aging out. For any recycling to be successful, the product that comes from recycling should have enough value to pay for the process of recycling and that is certainly true for EV batteries.
Maybe stop recycling your outdated talking points.
LifeIsARollerCoaster t1_jcb2mmx wrote
Reply to Electric ferries and trucks could be charged like toothbrushes with this tech breakthrough by Ornery_Conclusion763
TLDR: They have greatly improved the charging capacity through induction by using thinner braided copper wires and silicon carbide to allow far larger transfers of power