Posted on 11/17/2023 4:03:42 PM PST by Navy Patriot
President Biden invoked a Cold War-era law in a surprising move Friday to pour taxpayer funds into domestic manufacturing of electric heat pumps, an alternative to gas-powered residential furnaces.
In a joint announcement with the White House, the Department of Energy (DOE) said the federal government would award a "historic" $169 million for nine projects across 15 sites nationwide in an effort to accelerate electric heat pump manufacturing. The significant level of funding was made possible after Biden utilized the 1950 Defense Production Act (DPA) to increase domestic production of green energy technologies.
Under the actions announced Friday, the DOE will send millions of dollars to companies like Copeland, Honeywell International, Mitsubishi Electric and York International Corporation, all of which are billion-dollar multinational corporations. The projects will advance manufacturing of industrial, commercial and residential heat pump technology.
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Joe Stolen
[[Dammit!! Whenever Trump did ANYTHING, the left had an army of lawyers bringing instant lawsuits to immediately halt whatever it was that Trump attempted to do.
The GOP doesn’t do anything to stop Biden, NOTHING!!]]
Bears repeating- The GOP do nothing
“My guess would be that they are probably referring to the heat temp at the register..”
Registers are aluminum. They will cool fairly rapidly.
Electric heat-pumps are ridiculously inefficient! Im in an apartment. I heat with space heaters and its almost half the cost. A heat pump will not kick out 130°F-140°F air temp like normal gas heat and maxes out at 92°F. It so aggravating because it runs constantly 24/7 in the winter.
This is insane!!!!!!!!!!........
the same geniuses that broke the System will declare martial law and take away our freedoms in order to “fix” things...
That is why they are working to break the system.
Overwhelm the system.
Cloward Piven.
Heat pumps don’t work below 40 degrees F!!!!.........
We have literally hundreds of years of cheap gas reserves and these idiots want to put more strain on the aging power grid?
“Electric heat-pumps are ridiculously inefficient!”
They are very efficient. They provide several times the heat compared to resistance heat.
“I heat with space heaters and its almost half the cost.”
If so, I bet you are not heating the whole house.
“It so aggravating because it runs constantly 24/7 in the winter.”
Must be low on freon.
“Heat pumps don’t work below 40 degrees F!!!!.........”
Ours works fine into the 30’s. Efficiency decreases but still cheaper than gas.
New cold-climate units work below zero. Geothermal units even lower.
That’s the case, but not the point I was making. The poster perceives gas heat air coming out of the register as “warmer”, which is the case.
Try to stop me.
I do what I want.
“We have literally hundreds of years of cheap gas reserves and these idiots want to put more strain on the aging power grid?”
Source?
“The poster perceives gas heat air coming out of the register as “warmer”, which is the case.”
He says “stays warmer”, not feels warmer.
Meanwhile PG&E is spending millions on replacing underground natural gas piping in my neighborhood (street main lines and every house “drop” to the meter). We live in “watermelon people” (green on the outside red on the inside) “crazy world” nowadays!!
Not just rewired.
Air source heat pumps were designed for well insulated homes.
Take a look at the UK to find out what happens when they’re installed in an existing home that isn’t.
It’s their “perception” not necessarily “physics”...warmer air out of the registers equals shorter cycle times thus the perception of “stays warmer” (longer). (I’ll let them elaborate).
If I may...
And I’d say that’s a lowball estimate.
I got PTSD
P-retty
T-ired of
S-toopid
D-emocrats
Insanity.
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