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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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During heat waves in Phoenix, Arizona, while some people fry eggs on sidewalks , Matt Heath, a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) service manager at AC by J , is on the front line, helping maintain air conditioners in people’s homes. If, like 60 percent of the U.S. Still, in the U.S., What are the pros and cons of a heat pump?

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Study finds Colorado River Basin’s worst known megadrought was 1,800 years ago

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The new knowledge for how much worse droughts can be, even without anthropogenic climate forcing, points to a potentially grim outlook for water in the West. —Connie Woodhouse, a professor at the University of Arizona and a study co-author. The southwestern United States location of the UCRB is shown in the inset.

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Tesla Energy: Biden admin’s pushes instant permit app to ramp solar installations

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So far, SolarAPP+ has been tested in four communities in California and Arizona, and the results have been positive. The Biden administration aims to decarbonize the US electricity grid by 2035 as part of the country’s initiatives to address climate change.

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Natural EV capitalism

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Over three decades later, Martinson reinvented himself, earning an Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) from the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. We had a conversation about EVs, and I asked him if the grid would ever be ready for all the EVs that would eventually be on the roads,” Martinson remembered.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I went and spoke to their City Council and said “For $50,000 a house I’ll put in solar AND battery systems and take you off the grid. If you’re going to do it, take the homes off the grid. That’s pretty mean to the rest of the grid. Though you’re still going to have to deal with the utility to hook you up to the grid.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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Public Utility Commissions (PUCs)] and many state and federal agencies,” states a report by the non-profit group Americans for a Clean Energy Grid. Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades?

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