{"id":137876,"date":"2022-04-08T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-heat-pump-water-heater-is-the-energy-saving-equivalent-of-7-solar-panels-costs-%e2%85%99-the-price"},"modified":"2022-04-08T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T23:03:09","slug":"a-heat-pump-water-heater-is-the-energy-saving-equivalent-of-7-solar-panels-costs-%e2%85%99-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-heat-pump-water-heater-is-the-energy-saving-equivalent-of-7-solar-panels-costs-%e2%85%99-the-price","title":{"rendered":"A Heat Pump Water Heater Is The Energy Saving Equivalent Of 7 Solar Panels & Costs \u2159 the Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My sister is in the process of building a house in Ohio, and I\u2019ve been having conversations with her about how to make it green. She and my brother-in-law both consider me to be eco-crazed (arguably rightly so given the climactic<\/a> and political<\/a> stakes) and so tend to raise eyebrows when I make one of my many helpful suggestions.<\/p>\n

For example, I suggested they install a central heat pump instead of inefficient electric resistance heating, but only after consulting their HVAC guy, who is a fan of heat pumps, did they decide to install one (Woo-hoo! They\u2019ll save thousands of dollars and pounds of CO2 with that choice). They are also making their home solar-ready and plan to install panels in the next couple of years \u2014 this is mostly because solar offers a sense of self-reliance that is perennially popular across political and geographic boundaries.<\/p>\n

However, when I tried to talk them into installing a heat pump water heater, I ran into serious resistance. If you haven\u2019t heard about heat pump water heaters, they are an enormously powerful energy\/CO2 reduction technology lying hidden in plain sight in the most humble of appliances \u2014 the water heater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My sister is in the process of building a house in Ohio, and I\u2019ve been having conversations with her about how to make it green. She and my brother-in-law both consider me to be eco-crazed (arguably rightly so given the climactic and political stakes) and so tend to raise eyebrows when I make one of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}