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Switching to Heat Pump Water Heaters Could Save $8 Billion Annually in Health Care Costs

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All this year we’re exploring why we love heat pump water heaters. On Valentine’s Day, we talked about how HPWHs are so lovable because they save so much money on utility bills. For Earth Day, we want to talk about how much we love HPWHs for cleaning our air. Yes, … [continued]

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From Beacon to Amber, Flywheels Missed the Grid

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Amber Kinetics crossing my screen today was a reminder that electricity markets are littered with technologies that never quite die. Flywheels are one of those ideas. They are mechanically elegant, grounded in physics everyone understands, and they solve a real problem in principle. Store energy in a spinning mass, pull … [continued]

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