Q And the two of them connected around a very specific challenge in America. We install a lot of central air conditioners when we could be installing a lot of heat pumps that do the job better. So what are a political economist and a house whisperer doing together?
A Well, it all started with a thread that I put up January of last year talking about how we have this really unusual lever in North America because we have this strange type of HVAC that is unique to us called unitary equipment. It's the forced air furnace is unique to North America. And so, uh, the difference between an air conditioner and a heat pump is a couple hundred bucks worth of parts, and it wholesale costs. Uh, levels, it's 300 to 600 bucks per unit, and I've known this for a while and just tried to figure out how can we leverage that because it's a really cheap lever compared to most of the stuff that we're doing, and I wrote a thread about how to do that, and then Alexander reached out and said, hey, I'd love to help make this a policy proposal.
AI assessment note: “Alexander reached out and said, hey, I'd love to help make this a policy proposal.”