• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    We seem to be having a lot of success with heat pumps here in Canada.

    Yeah it’s not going to work on the coldest of days. Yes you need to have a secondary source of heat for those days. Yes it uses electricity.

    But there many days that you need heating which aren’t the coldest of days. And a heat pump will save you lots of money on your heating bill. Electricity can be generated without fossil fuels. The percentage of electricity generated by fossil fuels is dropping.

    • qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Also geothermal heat pumps are a thing. They’re way more efficient than air source heat pumps on the most extreme days.