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[reasonsforhope]

"Governor Janet Mills announced that Maine has, two years ahead of time, surpassed its goal of installing 100,000 new heat pumps by 2025, a milestone that represents significant progress in reducing Maine’s reliance on heating oil, lowering heating costs, and curbing harmful carbon emissions.

To continue Maine’s momentum, Governor Mills also unveiled a new target: installing another 175,000 additional heat pumps in Maine by 2027, thereby bringing the number of heat pumps installed in Maine homes, businesses, and public buildings during her time in office to 275,000.

If this target is achieved, Maine would have more than 320,000 heat pumps in total installed across the state.

Heat pumps can be thought of as temperature recycling machines. They are filled with refrigerant fluid and contain a compressor, and they work by extracting excess heat and moving it around, either in or out of a house depending on whether it’s hot or cold.

It’s believed they work best in hot weather, but in February, Maine’s temperatures in some places plummeted during a cold snap to -60°F. Efficiency Maine, which aided in the state’s adoption of heat pumps by organizing rebates for customers under the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, did a survey of owners they had helped the previous year.

Many of [the heat pump owners] reported they were comfortable and warm, and offered to bring up the fact that by February they had already saved hundreds of dollars on home heating systems, over boilers, gas furnaces, and heating oil.

“We are setting an example for the nation,” said Mills at the announcement event. ​“Our transition to heat pumps is… curbing our reliance on fossil fuels, and cutting costs for Maine families, all while making them more comfortable in their homes—a hat trick for our state.”

The transition began in 2019 with bipartisan support of the Legislature, when Governor Mills enacted laws setting ambitious targets for transitioning to renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions."

-via Good News Network, July 31, 2023

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[oceanwithinsblog]

i'm sorry but WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED IN THE WHONIVERSE ??????

THIS EPISODE WAS E V E R Y T H I N G .

MISTER RTD I AM SO SORRY FOR DOUBTING YOU AND YOUR WRITING SKILLS

[nerdyenby]

Ok but we need to talk about how insane the past few days have been for trailers

I have a family event for ONE WEEKEND and we get Barbie Movie, Across the Spiderverse, Secret Invasion, Miraculous movie, AND Ninjago United trailers?!??? What is happening????? /pos

[shippingmyworld]

Silly question but I wrote a fanfic (scrap it hated it immediately) but I gave me an idea on which one of the two🐯👻 would condone/do drunk driving (idk why was that the plot of my fiction I just started it)

I don't think either of them would condone drunk driving. That being said, Danny would probably be the one who thinks he's okay to drive, but drinks less often and doesn't know his limit as well as Manny would. Thankfully he only drinks when he's with a group, so he's never had to worry about transportation.

(And nooo, don't scrap your fanfic, you're so sexy aha)

[spockvarietyhour]

Pulled off his greatest coup and all he had to do was drink a bit of poisonwine. and throw up.

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hello I wanted to tell you directly I love love love love your (south) jersey miku so much she is everything to me. I'm technically from north jersey but I'm from too far south (and way too far from the cities) to truly be north jersey and your miku feels like home <3 in an ideal world we could fight over sports teams and then immediately gang up on nyc idiots who try to get involved <3 I love her thank u so much for her I would get dropped by you any day. mwah <3

AWW thank you 💖 that's so sweet!!!

Despite our differences, we can all agree on one thing: we gotta bully NYC 👊💥💥💥 and I think that's beautiful 💖

[netscapenavigator-official]

I’m tired of “cold-weather heat pumps” this, “extreme-cold-weather heat pumps” that.

How about you make an air conditioner where the compressor doesn’t kick off until it’s 40-fucking-degrees Fahrenheit in my house, okay? None of this “ohhh, it’s 62°F outside. I couldn’t possibly make it any colder inside.”

N O

When I go to bed I want to dream about being locked in a restaurant deep freezer. Do better.

[surreal-duck]

hi!! i just wanted to say that ive liked midoyuzu since i was like 14 and its been a few years since then (obviously) but seeing your midoyuzu art now is so!!! its so fulfilling to my past self who had like NO art to go off of, i guess? anyway! your art is super good and i love it so much <3

im glad omg? extremely late to the party but by god i am bringing snacks in here or die trying o7 was pretty baffled the first time finding out more abt their dynamic and looking them up on here to find maybe like two more recent posts and the rest from no sooner than 2017 or so askjdghsjkgdhjks but really THANK YOU!!!!!!!! happy to be of service to your inner 14yo somewhat ;v;

yknow what though the really funny thing is that i wasnt even that into them initially. just remembered that cute interaction at the end of xmas live and thought "huh these two r kinda sweet actually" and that curiosity is always a slippery slope into genuine investment and by god is tripping into it a favorite pastime of mine

[fennopunk]

BEHOLD, my savior this summer!

The Cube.

[leonsliga]

Your two moods when you watch Man United vs. FC Bayern and you support them both

[wekillitwithfire]

daily phone call with my mom: complete!

[shxleo97]

After a messy month of glucose readings, my doctor approved using Novorapid. Hopefully this helps with my meal induced spikes due to CF.

I’m also glad he’s planning on starting me on a pump to help with my day to day activities after determining the bolus needed.

Things are working out for the better El7mdellah ♥️♥️

[reasonsforhope]

“Five years ago, when Clauditta Curson became a first-time homebuyer, she was shocked by the “astronomical” utility bills she received for her 1,200-square-foot house. The 60-year-old adult daycare aide in Hamden, Connecticut, turned to the Connecticut Green Bank (CBG), the oldest such bank in the country.

The bank was financing solar panel installations with no upfront costs and fixed monthly lease payments. Once Curson’s panels were installed, her utility bills fell from about $150 a month to $74. “When I got my first bill I said, ‘Oh my gosh!’” she remembered. “Economically, it’s been very beneficial.”

Expanding access to these kinds of upgrades will be necessary to meet US climate goals, which include achieving a net-zero electric grid by 2035. One major barrier to low-income households like Curson’s is the cost of a solar installation, which, on average, runs between $13,000 and $17,000. The program enabled by CGB allows homeowners to benefit from rooftop solar energy savings without actually having to purchase the panels — instead leasing them at a fixed rate.

Founded in 2011, the Connecticut Green Bank is a quasi-public fund (chartered by the state but run by a board) created to invest in green energy projects that traditional lenders might shy away from. It has financed more than $120 million in green updates — solar panel installation, weatherization, appliance replacements and asbestos remediation — in 63,000 homes across the state and is one of 22 such funds across the country.

These funds are about to get a major windfall. The Inflation Reduction Act set aside $27 billion to create a national green bank, expanding access to funds like CBG’s.

A national green bank has the potential to transform America’s electrical grid — and do so in a way that makes green energy more accessible to lower-income households, said Adam Kent, a senior advisor at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“This isn’t just loans; it’s technical assistance and capacity-building. It’s creating the workforce that can execute the projects we need: solar installers, contractors who know what they’re doing when they retrofit a house,” Kent said.

Trying to figure out the true impact of $27 billion is a “brain-exploding” exercise, he said, arguing that the money is best thought of as a long-overdue downpayment. “[The Fund] will catalyze far more than $27 billion in investment.”

The fund will be administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, which has until February to begin distributing dollars toward green energy projects. About $15 billion of that fund is set aside for low-income and disadvantaged communities and projects traditional lenders generally deem too small or too risky to finance. A company purchasing a fleet of electric vehicles, for instance, or the installation of solar panels on a school in a low-income area.

“Green banks can mobilize investments in areas where they’re not happening,” Garcia said. “In Connecticut, we want to see low-income communities become more efficient and reduce the burden of energy costs at the same time.”

The idea for a national green bank isn’t new; advocates have been pushing the idea in Congress since 2009. Japan, Australia and South Africa already have national green banks. In the UK, a green bank helped to catalyze that country’s offshore wind boom.

In the United States, local green banks have been quietly investing in green energy projects in their communities for more than a decade...

Deyo said that the terminology around green banks, which are actually nonprofits, can be a little confusing. “We’re not a bank — none of us are. We’re financial intermediaries. We take public capital and multiply it by attracting private investment. Give us a dollar, and we turn it into three more.”

In the case of MCGB [Montgomery County Green Bank], some of that capital comes in the form of $20 million from the county’s energy tax. MCGB then “multiplies” those funds by finding grants, offering incentives to local contractors, or co-lending with local, private banks to facilitate small but impactful projects like installing energy-efficient heat pumps in area homes, solar panels on community churches or electric vehicle charging stations in condo parking lots.

A national green bank would allow smaller banks like MCGB to think more ambitiously, said Deyo, who is especially happy the fund includes money for technical assistance: hiring a workforce to go out into the community to talk with home and business owners about clean energy opportunities. “Obviously, we’re excited. You do your work based on what you have. This opens up a whole new resource to scale up and amplify,” he said.” -via Reasons to Be Cheerful, 12/12/22