Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by sorenjan on Sunday December 11, 2022 @04:33PM
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Burning fossil fuel isn't primarily about polluting neighborhoods, it's about polluting our shared atmosphere. If 20 000 houses use electricity from one oil burning power plant it's relatively easy to capture the carbon emissions from that one plant, and to replace the plant with other power producers eventually.
You do realize that in many countries - including the US - a very large portion of electricity is still generated from fossil fuels? Until there is enough electricity generated from wind/solar/nuclear, switching to an electric heat pump just switches where those fossil fuels get burned, i.e. it pollutes someone else's neighborhood instead of your own.