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“I’m Your Heat Pump”: Cool when you want it, hot when you need it (video)

Impact Alpha

Electric heat pumps are five times more efficient than gas furnaces, saving homeowners money and reducing emissions that contribute to pollution and climate. The post “I’m Your Heat Pump”: Cool when you want it, hot when you need it (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Will Pollution Pauses Have a Lasting Impact?

GreenTechMedia

The world is experiencing a sudden, dramatic drop in all kinds of air pollution. Finally, we’ll assess curtailments of solar and wind energy as electricity consumption drops around the world. Twitter : Katharine Hayhoe’s Most Recent Cool Explainer. The skies are dramatically different.

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Can ACs cool the world without warming it?

Grist

Several companies, including Gradient where Romanin is CEO (which landed him on the 2021 Grist 50 list ), are developing new AC technologies and approaches that are starting to show what a more efficient, less climate-intensive approach to cooling will look like. The regulatory environment surrounding refrigerants is continuously evolving.

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Silicon Valley commuters should return to work in electric buses

GreenBiz

Silicon Valley commuters should return to work in electric buses. Last year, I published a feature about why it was time for Silicon Valley to embrace the electric commuter bus. Want more great analysis of electric and sustainable transport? Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 05/05/2021 - 02:00. during the first half of 2021.

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4 Electrification Benefits to Electrify Your Sales Pitch

Mosaic

What do EV chargers, solar panels, battery storage and electric heating and cooling systems have in common? All of these are electric home improvements and all can save homeowners money on their utility bills. Electric upgrades are growing in popularity as more homeowners look to electrify their households.

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More solution than pollution?

Envirotec Magazine

Butler Farms now generates more electricity than the farm needs through its 180-kW biogas-fueled gen-set, so it has a power purchase agreement to sell the excess renewable energy to its power provider, South River Electric Membership Corp. It also has a 250-kW/735-kWh battery storage system. Butler Farms in North Carolina.

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Epiroc to supply EVs for new all-electric mine in Canada

Charged

million) from mining giant Glencore in Canada for battery-electric equipment and automation solutions that will be used at an all-electric mine. Glencore’s Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations has ordered a full fleet of battery-electric equipment for use at the Onaping Depth Project in Ontario, Canada. Source: Epiroc Group.