Heat pumps are expensive. What if billionaires bought them for everyone?

Grist
By Matt SimonAug 1, 2024, 4:30 am434 pts
A climate scientist half-jokingly once told me that if billionaires really wanted to save the planet, they would buy everyone a heat pump, the ingenious appliance that extracts heat from even frigid winter air to warm a home, then reverses in the summer to act like an air conditioner. A heat pump is far more…

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