@janrosenow @briankrebs

The basic plan for the #Carbonarchy is to continue to extract and sell as much as they can from the ground over the next couple of decades. Fear over stranded assets is what drives the officers of these companies

The current ethically compromised #FossilFuels hierarchy are bent on harvesting wealth from their #ClimateCrisis producing companies.

Since they have sold their souls, they will propagandize to secure wealth. The forces of inertia are strong!

#Petrogarchy

@janrosenow

Just installed heat pump for home heating and a absolutely love it. It saves money, is quiet, keeps the house uniformly at the set temperature. Much more comfortable. So much better than the old gas system!!!

@janrosenow That's the wrong question to ask. OF COURSE if a story supports the interests of a group, that group would support the story.

The question you should be asking is "Is the story true?".

@janrosenow Heat pumps are great technology. I love my ground sourced heat pump in my home. The problem comes when the debate couples renewable electricity to heat pumps. The supply-load mismatch is huge particularly for solar PV. What is needed IMO is more thinking along line of Drake Landing in Alberta.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community

@janrosenow

Too often yes ☹️

@janrosenow
Not to mention that problems with/caused by these things are never put into scale or proportion to the horrible, awful effects of the fossil fuel industry.

The scale of damage that has already been caused by that industry, and the rate at which more damage is being done is almost incalculable. It's not comparable.

@janrosenow not sure about the EV (car) thing, seeing as they are just replacing one problem with an identical problem.

Cars are the problem, not just their emissions; inefficient use of materials, dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists, and take up valuable land just so they can sit there and do nothing 90% of the time

@janrosenow @briankrebs
Negative stories about heat pumps and renewable energy are all bollocks.
Negative stories about Electric Mass Transit infrastructure is all bollucks.

Some negative stories about EVs are from the fossil fuel industry.

Most negative stories about personal EVs are from people who are concerned about efficient ICE vehicles being made obsolete prior to EoF, Conflict Mining of Cobalt and Lithium and insufficient infrastructure to support EVs.

@janrosenow to be fair electric vehicles are having a nightmare at the moment with privacy concerns, the anti-electric vehicle lobby doesn't really need to work very hard to discredit them, the worst thing is it's totally unnecessary as well, car manufacturers are just looking for another revenue stream...

As far as heat pumps go my boiler has just died, I am faced with two choices, £10k for a heat pump & higher electric bills or £2.5k for a gas boiler & lower gas bills...