government, it s probably one of the most comprehensive plans to tackle climate change that we have seen from a major economy. there is some real high plains like the requirements on car there is some real high points like the requirements on car companies to produce an increasing proportion of electric vehicles like the support to move from electric heat and move to electric heating so that we are not using fossilfuels, gas, to heat our homes any more. so there are some solid commitments in here, but at the end of the day, the only thing that we can judge it against is is it enough to make that crucial target of net zero by 2050, and will it, you know, cut carbon year on year until then? and i don t think it is going fast enough at the moment. it is, you know, until now, the government was probably walking, this strategy is maybe
Wednesday, 19 May 2021 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its support of a new nationwide campaign to drastically cut carbon emissions and energy use from heating water with advanced heat pump technology. The Advanced Water Heating Initiative (AWHI) will work nationally to drive increased manufacturing, sales, installations, and operation of heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) across the United States. HPWHs are game-changing products that are two to four times more efficient than conventional options. Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay
Heat pumps generally last for 12-14 years, which means that by 2035 all water heaters currently in use will likely need to be replaced. By choosing cleaner, more energy efficient HPWHs, U.S. households would save nearly 100 million tons of carbon emissions and enough energy to power 25 million homes each year. The AWHI is a collaboration of building industry entities, including utilities, state and local governments, efficiency p
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ONE of the concepts that climate science has bequeathed the wider world is the tipping point: a description of how a complex system can change gradually, almost imperceptibly, then suddenly flip into a new, stable state. Climate tipping points tend to be things we really don’t want to go past, such as the irreversible conversion of the Amazon rainforest to savannah or, heaven forfend, the Gulf Stream shutting down. Like in the climate disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow. That one ends especially badly.
The existence of climate tipping points and where they lie, however, remain uncertain. …