[feintruled]

Heat pumps are culture wars now, believe it or not.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/net-zero/why-heat-pumps-wi...

DT article to illustrate, not necessarily to inform. The idea I believe being that heat pumps are part of a supposedly unnecessary and costly push to Net Zero driven by industry and shadowy interest groups but which are just another means of a) enforcing control and b) screwing money out of 'the little guy' and siphoning tax dollars off compliant governments. And thus one is able to wave away an article absolutely bursting with scientific detail and research as 'well, it's all a bit convenient, isn't it?'

I honestly despair.

[andruby]

Oh wow. I lived in the US for a year, so this doesn't come as a complete surprise. But Heatpumps? I thought everybody loved Aircon, regardless of polical party, or socioeconomical background.

This is just Aircon.

I'll despair with you. Unfortunately, trends that emerge in the US tend to find their way to the rest of the western world too..

[infecto]

Counter point, the war on heat pumps is mostly a British problem. Everytime I have heard it come up its in context of the UK. Don't think the US has anything to do with it.