π interests: energy poverty, home performance, heat pumps & good jobs | πinterests: friendship, belonging, dignity, meaning | not here any more
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29 Jan 2021
Our off-the-cuff chat might be a little rough around the edges, so lets unpack.
Summary: we'd decarbonize/electrify better/faster when white-collar policy makers/shapers work *with* blue-collar (HVAC) technicians, rather than design programs *for* them from afar. 1/
29 Jan 2021
What culture is going to drive residential electrification?
Hint: it's not white collar culture. Communities of practice are one piece, which HVAC 2.0 does among other functions.
An impromptu discussion with @akantamn
youtube.com/watch?v=9eEysGwLβ¦
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31 May 2023
I was very lucky to be able to catch a bit of @Skills_Canada event in Winnipeg this year and lucky to have witnessed some Canadaβs next generation of skilled tradespeople. Such a fantastic initiative to help young people find meaningful work.
youtu.be/aimo5jYZ23w
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Abhi from Canada π¨π¦ retweeted
18 May 2023
HVAC contractors work in the nasty parts of homes. As did I as an insulation contractor.
The work needs to pay well or it wonβt get done, or at least not done well.
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Abhi from Canada π¨π¦ retweeted
7 May 2023
Want boots on the ground home electrification knowledge? And analysis of the challenge with hvac contractors?
Check out @akantamn and Iβs Boundary Spanners podcast.
This is a wicked heavy lift!
bit.ly/BSpodSpotify
#electrifyeverything #HVAC
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6 May 2023
How to make room for - in thinking about energy policy - for the ordering of our inner lives?
Where to begin accounting for things like - your sense of honour and dignity that bind you to a certain way of being? 1/
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6 May 2023
However, we are all not merely fragmented automatons that can be nudged into certain 'preferred' policy pathways to maximize our private utility. 7/
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6 May 2023
In my own conception of the world, I would like to be more attentive to our rich inner orderings that drive, shape our character and destiny.
In particular, I'd like to account for it somehow in the policy research work I do. I am as yet unsure what that would look like /end
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2 May 2023
Takeaways from 2 months spent driving 15k kms across πΊπΈ/π¨π¦
1) Home is where you're missed
2) There's an epidemic of profound loneliness & a devastating decline of social relations, in communities of all kinds- from coal towns in WV to software suburbs of WA
3) Wither antidote?
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2 May 2023
Same patterns come up in nearly every conversation with all kinds of people. Concerns about
> Uprootedness from and disenchantment with places
> Erosion of shared spaces and corrosion of shared aspirations
> Hostile fragmentation of attention and affection
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2 May 2023
I'm tired now but I'll have to think about all this a bit more and write it up somewhere else.
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17 Mar 2023
Embarking on a cross-country 'goodwill tour' of πΊπΈ next week to forge deeper ties between our two great nations ....
but mostly to learn first-hand about HVAC & home performance biz models from the best in business - #hvac20 @jeffdoug26 @energysmartwv @EfficiencyLast et al
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15 Mar 2023
Sometime this month, I'd have lived here in π¨π¦ longer than I did in the πΊπΈ.
I have very fond memories of the people, places and my 'hometowns' of the US, but the enduring legacy of my time there will be : fully internalizing this disposition to Self and life .
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10 Mar 2023
What do folks make of this?
Nearly a third (4.5 M) of all π¨π¦ homes have both a central AC for cooling AND a forced air furnace for heating.
What if - at end of life - either of those systems was replaced with a single heat pump that could do both? π€
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10 Mar 2023
This is just an early chart from a larger cross-tab dataset I am putting together. What's on your data wishlist?
I can break this out by fuel-type, province, CMA, year of construction, homeowner/renter and any combination of those variables.
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Abhi from Canada π¨π¦ retweeted
21 Jan 2021
A Heat Pump Policy Thread:
What if we paid resi HVAC manufacturers ~$400 per AC they manufacture if they make all of their production heat pumps?
Currently US OEMs make ~5M ACs and ~3M heat pumps. What if they were all heat pumps?
This might only cost ~$10 billion over 4 yrs
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Abhi from Canada π¨π¦ retweeted
20 Feb 2023
This is a horrifying piece on #climate, dripping with contempt for poor people from developing countries. Aside from just being wrong, these malthusian arguments increasingly come from people who can't seem to stop talking about saving the planet.
scientificamerican.com/articβ¦
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