Curious what will happen with Ithaca's building electrification plans now.
Right, the magic of cold climate heat pumps is that they can be 250% efficient at 17F. Combined cycle gas plants convert 50-60% of the energy of gas to electricity. Even accounting for ~5% transmission losses this means heat pumps can add over 100% of the energy in gas to a home, gas furnaces can't.
And yet you keep being surprised that people eat mayo.
That’s really exceptional. Do you know that <1% of people live in climates colder than 0 degC. Heat pump technology now works at temperatures cold enough to address the heating needs of 99% of Humanity. journals.plos.org/climate/arti....
Climate change may pose an acute threat to humanity due to physical and biological constraints on regional habitability. A recent study proposed that the human climate niche is a narrow segment of the...
Climate change is exacerbating the frequency and intensity of extreme river flood events. This flood is devastating, but as we continue to emit more greenhouse gases floods like it will become more common. We have the tools to stop emitting, we must deploy them ASAP.
Yes, I'm very curious what the cost of fixing this will be in the future. Across the board I suspect this hurricane will cost billions, but we'll see. Right now I'm just hoping that the people down there are safe.
The cost to fix/replace/harden infrastructure that climate change will destroy is massive. Drastically cutting emissions is much cheaper in the long run and we should have invested more in it in the past. Some things (like this road) won't make it, but there's still so much to save if we move fast.
Climate change makes hurricanes worse.
I'm a little confused by this paper. It says that the temps are high enough, but then notes that they need to drill more. Maybe it's saying they need more fractures to effectively transfer the heat to their fluid?
