Heat Pump Coaches Help Mass Residents Make the Right Choices

From Canary Media:

Heat-pump coaches aim to lower the activation barriers for people interested in the technology. They help neighbors understand the climate and financial benefits of heat pumps, how they work, what incentives owners can get, and how to check that a system will actually meet their home’s heating and cooling needs.

Home heating in New England typically relies on burning fossil gas and fuel oil for heat. HeatSmart Alliance estimates that switching to heat pumps could cut the annual carbon emissions of households in the region by an average of approximately 3 metric tons.

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When a YouTube Video Would Make a Great Blog Post

Lately it seems as if many fifteen minute YouTube videos would be fantastic short blog posts. I am interested in what the speaker has to say, but don’t want to sit through the “please like, subscribe, etc.” pitch and meandering background information designed to pad their video length. Enter the Kagi Universal Summarizer.

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Weekend Links

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GuliKit's King Kong 2 / Zen Pro Is Not For Mac Users

After reading and watching multiple reviews I picked up a Zen Pro controller on sale from Target. With all the hype about GuliKit’s Hall Effect joysticks I was excited to take them for a spin. Unfortunately I never got that opportunity.

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National Police Data Coalition at Code for Boston

Last night Darrell Malone returned to Code for Boston to bring back the National Police Data Coalition to our project portfolio. Originally born out of a 2019 National Day of Civic Hacking challenge the National Police Data Coalition is a now a non-profit working nationwide to establish a repository of police data.

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