{"id":143576,"date":"2022-08-04T14:42:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/heat-pumps-prove-themselves-during-a-harsh-maine-winter"},"modified":"2022-08-04T14:42:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:42:47","slug":"heat-pumps-prove-themselves-during-a-harsh-maine-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/heat-pumps-prove-themselves-during-a-harsh-maine-winter","title":{"rendered":"Heat Pumps Prove Themselves During A Harsh Maine Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The state of Maine has started a campaign to educate residents about heat pumps and now they can heat homes even in the winter.<\/p>\n

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Heat pumps are i ncomprehensible to many people.<\/a> How can a thing that looks like an air conditioner keep people warm in the winter? The state of Maine wants to install 100,000 heat pumps in the next 3 years and is off to a good start. 27,000 of them were installed by Maine residents last year. Presently, about 60% of all homes in Maine are heated by oil furnaces \u2014 one of the highest percentages in America. All those furnaces mean lots of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

Maine may not have the harshest winters in the United States, but it certainly comes close. Old time Mainers like to say their weather is \u201c10 months of winter and 2 months of damn poor sleddin\u2019.\u201d Outside of cities like Portland, its residents tend to be skeptical of new ways of doing things, and that reticence extends to heat pumps.<\/p>\n

To address those concerns, Efficiency Maine<\/em><\/a> conducted an experiment last winter to see if heat pumps would keep homes in Maine comfortable even when temperatures outside<\/a> dipped to-20\u00ba F. Lots of people who have heat pumps today also have an oil furnace as well, on the theory that a heat pump can\u2019t make heat when the temperature drops below zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The state of Maine has started a campaign to educate residents about heat pumps and now they can heat homes even in the winter. Heat pumps are i ncomprehensible to many people. How can a thing that looks like an air conditioner keep people warm in the winter? The state of Maine wants to install [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143576","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=143576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}