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Not really. Older ones are loud, small/underpowered ones are loud but new, larger, correctly sized, modulating heat pumps can be fairly quiet.

I was talking about cooling only.

Caveat: In Europe, heat pumps usually provide either no or less effective cooling though, because our heatings usually use water as the medium rather than air like in the US. And heat pumps are usually connected with a buffer tank, in many cases that’s a combination hot drinkable water + heating water tank.

Water as the medium means cooling is usually less effective. And if you fuck up that buffer tank, cooling doesn’t work at all.

Almost like there is a coordinated campaign by gas & oil lobbyists across the globe. Curious.

(Greetings from Germany where the government had the goal of helping 500k heat pumps get installed in 2024. People installed 200k heat pumps, but 500k gas/oil furnaces. This follows a solid year 2022/2023 of concentrated disinformation campaigns about heat pumps.)

Aren’t these the same people who just helped get Trump elected? Biden actually gave the oil industry a stable environment in which to operate. Granted, in the long run, they would’ve had to find a new business model or sell a larger share of their oil outside the US.

“Together with our energy partner, Entergy, we are adding enough clean and renewable energy to the grid to cover 100% of the electricity use of our Richland Parish Data Center.” […]

Entergy noted that Meta has also committed to helping it install CCS technology at one of its power plants

Oh good lard. They’re building 2 GW of gas capacity and will offset those separately.

Chinese policy doesn’t give a shit about climate change. In fact, Xi is banking on a Northern passageway to Europe permanently unthawing to avoid the partly US-controlled South China Sea.

Xi cares about staying in power until he drops in the 2030s, for that he neess to keep the country stable and the people quiet. So what he really wants is industrial power and rising welfare. He’s found that one of the best ways to gain an edge that is to spur useful innovation that wealthier nations will want to adopt.

What this means is that we’ll see a lot of climate-friendly technology coming out of China, but the country may not care much about cleaning up its footprint.