By installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo, Oyvind Solstad killed three birds with one stone, improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.

Heat pumps can’t take the cold? Nordics debunk the myth::By installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo, Oyvind Solstad killed three birds with one stone, improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.

  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    Can you just start saying “America” that way it includes south America and Central America, also?

    • QueriesQueriedEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      When the context is involving climate, electricity rates, and money, there is little overlap between all of the Americas. It makes sense to tighten it down to the top half (more similar climates, etc) or bottom half (electricity rates for example). Canada has the wealth and the electricity rates to make heat pumps extremely viable, and for the most part climate too. The USA shares a lot of this. The Central/South Americas do not overlap like this with Canada.

    • Pogbom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      But that wouldn’t be accurate because there are South American countries with even cheaper electricity than here, so it’s only the cheapest in North America.

      Also not to be too pedantic but central America isn’t technically a continent, and it all falls under North America anyways.