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Heat pumps slash emissions even if powered by a dirty grid | Grist (grist.org)
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[โ€“] ashok36@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Heat pumps are designed to last 15-20 years. Even if the power source is a coal plant today, there's a fairly good chance the power source will be solar or wind or something else halfway through its life. That's the beauty of centralized power generation and electrification.

[โ€“] kaosof@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Apparently newer models are more like 20-30 years, conservatively, depending on use case.