{"id":33845,"date":"2024-05-07T03:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=33845"},"modified":"2024-05-07T03:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:03:27","slug":"the-one-thing-holding-back-heat-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=33845","title":{"rendered":"The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Science-heatpumpengineershortage-May6_GettyImages-1252320781.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">If billionaires actually cared about saving the planet, they\u2019d pool their vast wealth and buy everyone a heat pump. But it\u2019s not funding, or the technology itself, that\u2019s preventing a full heat pump takeover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/heat-pump-worker-shortage\/\">The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>so why can&#8217;t we see this is an opportunity?  get the training done.  fund the trades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;\u201cYes, there is a shortage of qualified contractors,\u201d he says. But it\u2019s a good problem to have, he argues, and \u201cone where there\u2019s an obvious solution\u201d on the road to decarbonizing our civilization. It\u2019ll be costly to train more workers in the green economy, but that\u2019ll end up paying huge dividends.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If billionaires actually cared about saving the planet, they\u2019d pool their vast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1145,1784,57],"class_list":["post-33845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-electrical","tag-heat-pump","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33848,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33845\/revisions\/33848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}