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Five Reasons You Should Switch to a Heat Pump at Home

Enviromental Defense

We should do everything we can to reduce the effects of global warming and that means burning less fossil fuels, which includes burning less gas. Heat pumps run on electricity and do not emit any greenhouse gasses so using one will be part of your contribution to reducing the effects of climate change.

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. It replaced an earlier, more dangerous, product called “town gas” or “coal gas,” which consisted mainly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide and was produced by heating coal in. the absence of air.