42

I did get one installer to admit that if I care more about emissions than cost, they could set that switchover point lower. But buying a new heat pump and a new furnace was out of our price range to begin with. Some manufacturers even bundle them together.

Every installer I talked to here in Michigan would install a get pump to work alongside a gas forced air furnace. Then they’d set the heat pump to turn off at about 30 degrees F and the gas furnace to take over. They said this had to do with gas and electricity prices in the state. 1/2

All good! I could use more real social interaction, it’s true. But what I meant was my tweets were like the proverbial tree falling in the forest with no one to hear — not even the squirrels!

This is already more interaction than I usually have on Twitter, so I like it.

Thanks for the shoutout Mark! And welcome to BlueSky.

Charles Eisenstein and others’ response: ARPA! More totalitarian deep state surveillance. (And why aren’t we concerned about “electromagnetic pollution” as well?)

Maybe adopt the North American abbreviation of Za?