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Heat Pumps Are the Ultimate Climate Techno-Fix, But Not a Silver Bullet
To ditch fossil fuels for good, we must combine a range of technologies and approaches.
Engineers work on installing an Ecoforest heat pump at Octopus Energy Ltd.'s training and R&D center in Slough, U.K., Sept. 28, 2021.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shown once and for all that we must get off fossil fuels—fast. Heat pumps are a big part of the solution to stopping burning them in our homes. Heat pumps will not stop the war in Ukraine.