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Nine US States Are Teaming Up To Accelerate the Adoption of Heat Pumps - Slashdot

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Nine states have signed a memorandum of understanding that says that heat pumps should make up at least 65 percent of residential heating, air conditioning, and water-heating shipment US by 2030.

Instead of burning planet-warming natural gas, a heat pump warms a building by transferring heat from outdoor air into the interior space.

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