Q And what was the math? What, what are, what were you eventually getting to?
A So what we needed to do to make sure this would work was to run a computer model, basically looking at each little area of the U.S., looking at every census tract in the U.S., and saying, all right, if we Swapped out new central AC for heat pumps. How would that affect people's bills? How often would they actually use the heat pumps as opposed to the fossil fuel backup? Uh, how much energy would that take? How would that affect the grid? And then looking at what the bigger economic impacts of that would be, you know, how much money is that going to save? How much money is that going to cost the federal government? Uh, and just making sure that all those numbers lined up. And once we did that, we were Really happy to see that the benefits were going to be five, eight times the cost of doing this.
AI assessment note: “benefits were going to be five, eight times the cost of doing this.”