Who Says You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? Heat Pumps are On the Horizon…
When “beneficial electrification” advocates began suggesting that cold-climate heat-pumps reduce carbon emissions when compared to high-efficiency natural-gas furnaces, we were skeptical at first. After all, with more than a decade working in the residential and commercial energy-retrofit industry, heating with electricity was a worse-case scenario; the emissions were about four times higher, and the monthly…