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Letter: Car ownership may be a hard habit to kick (2)

Published 29 September 2021

From Ken Jensen, Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada

Your well-conceived feature “A day in a net-zero life” discusses heat pumps as though they only provide warmth. You seemed to refer to air conditioning as separate tech. However, a heat pump can both heat and cool a home. We have had one for a year. It has operated well through a cool winter and a very hot summer.

Issue no. 3354 published 2 October 2021

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