Original post made on Oct 4, 2022
How many of the people who are making the decisions for thousands of residents were present during the heat wave, with all of its power outages? I bet those without A/C were holed up in a fancy hotel, far away from the sweaty masses of people who had to stay here, without options. "Seeking to make the city a model in the global battle against climate change" --- well if they can't build fiber optic internet that can circle the sun and all the planets, at least they can run all of the poor people out of Palo Alto altogether by 2030. Voila! No more housing crisis! Just don't forget who delivers your Door Dash, or who manicures your lawn, or fixes your coffee every morning, or who takes your blood pressure at your concierge primary care doctor's office. They won't be able to live here and they won't be spending $10/gal to be at your beck and call. Maybe there are going to be free Teslas for the low income workers who do all the heavy lifting for the privileged few? BTW ... there are fewer privileged people here than, say, during 1990. The noose is tightening especially over the last 9 months of double digit inflation. And double digit inflation always seems to get stamped out, like a wildfire, when it's time to calculate the COLA for Social Security. It lowers just enough to make sure SSI, SSDI, and SS recipients will get screwed. People whose income is dependent on SS won't be buying electric cars or putting in a new water heater. But these aren't issues for our elite CC. The best way for poor people to "Dig In Deep" is to keep raising the price of gas like we're experiencing. And the elite, who can pay whatever the market will bear, can buy whatever cars they want and buy gas in Mountain View. My favorite part about this whole scheme: "As part of its actions on Monday, the council approved a $7.7 million contract with the company Synergy". Follow the money.
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This is virtue signalling at best. Palo Alto can't do anything but make gestures which often fall flat. As an example, many months ago (maybe a year ago) work started at Charleston Plaza to put in EV charging station. That is still not available for anyone to charge. A couple of dozen tall shrubs were put in to hide the electrical boxes but these are now dead probably through lack of watering. How many more of these mistakes will be made to make us net zero? As I said, nothing more than virtue signalling.
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Counterproductive. The environment is actually too important to be left to environmentalists. They make a mess of things by working from a stale and often counterproductive playbook: more bureaucracy, more political control over people and resources, and endless costly lawsuits. The environmentalist movement and the regulation it spawns arguably retards environmental improvement and remediation throughout the world. Modern environmental regulation is the most expensive species of regulation, routinely imposing billion-dollar solutions to million-dollar problems. The only resource environmentalists think is unlimited is other people’s money, not adhering to their own general principle that when you’re wasting resources you’re harming the environment in aggregate.
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“And if Palo Alto manages to get close to an 80% reduction, it could close the remaining gap by purchasing carbon offsets as it works to implement new technology.” Purchasing offsets is very expensive virtue signaling, basically a City cash donation to another part of the world to meet a self imposed goal that last I heard, voters didn’t ask for.
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Kudos to the PACC for their visionary efforts in making our planet a far less toxic environment in which to live. A city comprised of all-electric homes and vehicles will be quiet, clean, and environmentally responsible. Green is displayed prominently in Palo Alto's city logo and the PACC (with the possible exception of one member) is devoted to ensuring that Palo Alto continues to set a glowing standard for other cities to follow. As we approach 2030 and beyond, there will be fewer internal combustion vehicles polluting our city and fewer gas stations as well. They will not be missed. The results: plant foilage will be greener and the air considerably fresher than they are in today's toxic environment. And with the phasing-out of all gas heaters and stoves, Palo Alto will also be less flammable and prone to explosions. Years from now, former PACC members (with the possible exception of one former member) will be able to look back and credit themselves for taking Palo Alto into the next millennium, far ahead of countless cities still clinging to their anachronisms. Like intrepid star travelers, the PACC has charted an infinite course for the future and only the human dinosaurs still clamoring for fossil fuels will be left behind. The PACC is taking us where no man has ever been before.
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Synergy's website says this about electric water heaters: "Electric water heaters use an electric heating element to gradually heat the water in the tank. Of all water heaters these are the least efficient because of the electricity required to heat the water tank." About the heat pump variety: "Heat pump water heaters are a great option for applications where gas fuel is not available. Like a traditional heat pump heating system, the system will extract heat from the ambient temperature in the air to maintain temperature within the tank. In the event there is not enough heat in the ambient air, the system will revert to an electrical backup to provide hot water." They suggest we do what I used to do, which was let the sun provide the heat for the water. But Synergy goes it one step further on cold days, which is to provide electric heating -- and their own website says electric is the least efficient way to heat water. Dig deep, residents. The cost of the hot water under this plan is the only thing that's scalding. I'm already not using the gas in my place, but still have to pay fees to have a meter. Here I am trying to save the environment and get shot in the wallet for my efforts. This scheme is kinda like that. If you can't get the ambient temperature to cooperate you will pay crazy fees for electric hot water. Web Link <--- synergy hot water heater website.
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@MyFeelz: If you have no gas equipment, you can have your meter pulled and no longer pay that fee.
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@MyFeelz Watch — They’ll be loads of abandoned old gas burning hot water tanks along our streets — the hauler will just dump Willy nillly. These and tent homes! Numero uno — Face and fight climate with prevailing wages and homes for humans near good transit corridors. The CC was giddy w excitement over a new home gadget to show off at their cocktail parties. A fun factor home appliance.
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"Seeking to make the city a model in the global battle against climate change..." when ""We're seeing these problems ahead of almost any other city," Burt said. "Because we have the highest electric vehicle adoption rate in the country … and we're beginning the home electrification program." Ok. PA's a model. Yay! Go collect the award(s) and stop the virtue signalling. How about making it a priority to having a workable electrical grid and demanding answers to Diana Diamond's quests about whether CPAU's ready for the increased demand?? How about undergrounding the wires so every balloon, fallen branch and squirrel doesn't knock out our power? How about upgrading the pathetic power outrage reporting system so we now how long we'll be powerless (irony intended)? "the council approved a $7.7 million contract with the company Synergy for installation of heat pump water heaters at local homes." That amount almost equals the proposed $9 million business tax! So glad we've got unlimited funds for this, a new city gym, $143,000,000 for fiber, beefing up the Junior City Museum and Zoo to cover revenue shortfalls, more bike lanes and road furniture, and an Uplift newsletter offering weekly recipes and tips on mindfulness, ,,,,, Where's the common sense?? We're in a recession looking at declining sales tax revenues!
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@JudithWasserman, I thought of that but especially after our heat wave last summer and its companion power outage, I have to give new respect to Mother Nature. For all I know, this winter we could face sub-zero weather with 3 feet of snow. Another test of our utility system, to show how icicles on power lines can leave us all in the dark and in the cold. I would hate to suffer from hypothermia while living indoors! The price of climate insecurity we will all suffer from sooner or later. @Native, they could re-purpose the tanks by turning them into mini-silo storage units. A welding torch could do wonders with those spaces. Plant them all over town. Let anyone who wants one have free use, they just have to provide a lock. Besides, it would be such a badge of honor to see how Palo Alto went carbon-free. We could charge admission to come into the city limits! Tourists will be amazed. Kind of like all those Cadillacs planted in the dirt in Amarillo. Except the Cadillac Ranch charge no fees. But we are loftier than that. Web Link <--- Cadillac Ranch, a must-see if you are in the middle of nowhere and have nothing better to do.
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Heat-pump water heaters require 1,000 cubic feet of surrounding air space (approximately a 12x12 foot room with a normal ceiling height) in order to operate efficiently. Any smaller than that and their efficiency drops precipitously due ineffective thermal conditions. Show me all the old homes in Palo Alto with a room this big around their water heater. Many won't have it. Anyone with a gas water heater sitting in a small room (or a closet!) is in big trouble. I really hope our city leaders are writing regulations such that changing out a water heater doesn't results in five-figure remodeling expenses for homes where adequate square footage simply isn't available. What will happen to homeowners whose houses simply can't accept a heat-pump water heater without significant and costly structural changes? How about getting an energy credit for living in an older, smaller home? Large new homes with basements might be able to fit (or retrofit) more efficient and lower carbon-intensity appliance, but with their greater square footage and water use their overall energy consumption may be higher than an older, smaller home. This isn't about politics, it's about physics.
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@El Duderino, “Heat-pump water heaters require 1,000 cubic feet of surrounding air space (approximately a 12x12 foot room with a normal ceiling height) in order to operate efficiently. Any smaller than that and their efficiency drops precipitously due ineffective thermal conditions. “ What a visual - the city subsidizing or paying people with this kind of space in Palo Alto to switch. Wonder what the City will offer to “compete” with AT&T.
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@resident3, so far they are willing to cough up $144 million dollars to compete with AT&T ... if you want to hold the golden shovel to symbolize actual digging, they are having a raffle. Every one of the 700 or so people who bought tickets at $50/each to "show interest" is in the running.
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These expensive programs are beyond the normal remit of local government. PA CC should focus on cleaning streets, fixing potholes, burying utility wires and otherwise improving the local environment.
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These expensive programs are beyond the normal remit of local government. PA CC should focus their energies on fixing streets, schools and utilities. There’s plenty still to do.
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You can say that again, Garry. PA is not so much a city anymore as it is a fiefdom. Or maybe it always has been.
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It globally warms the cockles of my no-longer-living-in-PA heart to see that the tide of comments to articles like this one has *firmly* shifted from holier-than-thou climate alarmism, to realism and statements of fact, namely that PA’s leftist political class has no idea the harm they’re doing to people who aren’t independently wealthy.
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@GarryWyndham and @OnlineName Nobody likes a power outage but undergrounding power lines is not suitable for all neighborhoods. • “In addition to the capital cost, undergrounding may make routine maintenance of the system more difficult, and thus more expensive, because of reduced accessibility to power lines. This may also make it more difficult to repair the system when outages do occur, prolonging the duration of each outage.” Web Link and, "Can burying power lines protect storm-wracked electric grids? Not always " Web Link
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@Esther, “not suitable for all neighborhoods. “ That’s how I feel about the Fiber project 100% non-need. At least undergrounding is not slated to be funded by the City borrowing money to do it. How about let all mansions pay for their own heat pumps, keep the City out of my bills and let’s revive the pros and cons of undergrounding to see what makes sense. Oops, making sense won’t happen anytime soon apparently.
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@Esther Living in a long-undergrounded neighborhood, there doesn't seem to have been any maintenance difficulty issue. There is an savings from not having to prune trees near power/cable lines. However, if you're going to install new or upgraded service, my understanding is that the homeowner has to pay for the new underground conduit from the street connection to the house.
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Look carefully before you vote as to which council candidate has been deeply involved in these recommendations to the council. Recommendations which do not take into account many Palo Alton’s live in homes without a 12’ x 12’ room and thousands of spare dollars lying around for a compulsory new heat pump system. Ironically, whose more modest older homes have a lifetime footprint that is minuscule compared to the embedded environmental impact of tearing down existing homes to replace them with multi-million dollar mansions, however many “ green” features are included. There is nothing less sustainable than the lifetime environmental impact of all the concrete and raw materials required to replace an existing older house.
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Re undergrounding, given that PA is largely flat and uniform, I don't see why some neighborhoods are suitable while others aren't. My neighborhood was undergrounded about 18-20 years ago and I remember paying about $8,500 then for the trenching from the house to the street. And I agree with mjh re scraping modest old houses without air conditioning but nice thick old walls and replacing them with huge McMansions with their a/c, glass walls, 4+ bathrooms etc is counterproductive.
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Somebody here suggested the City Council is going to save the planet, one hot water heater at a time. All it will do is force the working class out of PA entirely. First, they'll outlaw the cars they need to get to work. Then, the PACC will do what ... try to forcibly mandate landlords of multifamily buildings to build a new room to house these great heaters that only one local supplier can get their hands on, apparently? Will that be like the landlord directory mandate of 2002 the City Council already can't enforce? "Past CC Members" (ALL OF THEM) who were part of crafting that piece of local coding said they, too, were ensuring the housing safety of residents. But as we've recently learned, it's another "Emperor's New Clothing" tale being written by the current round of residents who are STILL being impacted by NON ENFORCIBLE city codes. Believe me, landlords are looking for creative ways to empty their buildings in order to raise ALL of the rents to astronomical amounts. A retrofit of the building is just the kind of launching pad they're looking for. EVERYBODY OUT! Forget the "relocation fees" that are also jokingly carved in stone right next to the one about the landlord directory. By local statute they can force everyone out under no-fault cause per page 37 of a PTC agenda (2021): "4.Intent to demolish or substantially remodel a unit. “Substantially remodel” means the replacement or substantial modification of any structural, electrical, plumbing or mechanical system that requires a permit, or the abatement of hazardous material, including lead, mold or asbestos that cannot be reasonably accomplished in a safe manner with the tenant in the unit and that requires the tenant to vacate for more than thirty days. Cosmetic improvements alone, including painting, decorating, and minor repairs, do not qualify, nor does any work that can be done safely with the tenant in the unit." DOES IT REQUIRE A PERMIT? I said earlier, follow the money.
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@MyFeelz let’s face it, very affluent (full of it) SFH owners are really steaming mad that Cali & Feds are mandating climate controls w new build MFH’s before their turn. Mayor Burt laments “ it was soooo hot in Sept. We want our HVAC too without the $$29,000 plus price tag billed to owner. Badly paraphrased here, “ I thought PA is (was perfectly gold). when I relocated here, I was promised by my realtor, it would be temperate all day and all night long, year round. to sweeten the deal, “into infinity and beyond”. SOLD! Now bite that coin. In such a un-honed emergency, no one , not one’s city action need be focused on anything else. I could make a comparison to an earlier darker time, like 80 years ago. Yet it’s dark out now.our SFH comforts are primary, (you know like Prop 13 was a selfesh rationale for rising SFH tax)and climate and housing come after. Long after. I was struck by the overuse and general term “community” that this sparkling, new appliance was desperately needed for, Who??? Next they’ll vote for themselves for a new Tesla house roof. Could anything get any worse, blatant , egregious, self centered. No CC said iota of how much improved prop value it brings. This town is what the Internet is; a suspension of disbelief.
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Let’s start with something that’s actually doable in the short term! There is a real need to support the transition from gas powered leaf blowers to electric leaf blowers. Each and every move in this direction will reduce both air pollution and noise pollution!
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Aha but @Native the CC is very cagey in their lack of discussion of "What Ever Shall We DO" about the RENTERS? (Clutching at pearls in desperation!) PA has almost 50% renters, except there's no registry to prove it. Are we supposed to think the CC is pointing their gaze at only single family homes for these new water pumps? Were the SFH's pointed yonder to the Mitchell facility as a (poorly planned, poorly executed) "cooling room"? Of course not. Anyone with eyes and $$ knew that was the signal to get outta town. The CC was probably forewarned about all of the missteps that would lead to MULTIPLE outages that didn't happen anywhere but here. And now the answer is to collect the ambient heat to not only heat your water, but cool your house on a hot day? Sorry, as a once-removed Texan due to global warming, living inside a swamp cooler is not a liveable existence. "I got some ocean property in Arizona, from my front porch I can see the sea..." borrowing from a Country Song, you are under the spell of a sweet talking Real Estate agent and you are a victim! Can you sue for this?? I too am here for the temperate micro climate that is touted here (though, being born here it's kinda easy to say I'm more used to this than living in the boiler room called TX). I just believe, and will say again, this is part of the plan of which low income folks aren't privy to. The best way to corral 'em and move the herd is take away their car keys and evict them for no cause except to rehab the building so it will be CARBON NEUTRAL. And we already know the permitting process takes more than 30 days. Landlords are watching. See if the landlord registry doesn't show volunteers signing up day and night, so they can empty their buildings to put in a new water heater. PACC will say they did it to get the registry completed (though it's been on their task list for 20 years). Now see if they enforce the relocation awards to evicted tenants!
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"Mayor Pat Burt offered some reasons for optimism, including the low cost of renewable energy" The Mayor might be referring to the low cost of production. For the end customer green electriciy costs increases are on par (if not more) than other non green sources.
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"We have the highest Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption rate in the country … and we're beginning the home electrification program." The EV adoption rate has almost nothing to do with City government efforts, and the electrification has yet to begin - 16 years after the Palo Alto Green Ribbon Task Force wrote about a "moral imperative" to halt climate pollution. A lot of "talking the talk" continues, but what does the City do to spread awareness about the lethal urgency? Where is the educational program regarding cows burping, or jet engines burning kerosene, etc.? I continue to hear vague words such as "goals", "emissions", and "climate", but not more easily understandable vocabulary such as "death", "pollution", and "weather". If the City won't provide graphic, yet accurate, information about the misery connected to our everyday (yet invisible) releases of various gaseous pollutants, why will Palo Alto residents see any need to change behavior? ps - the first 3 cars in the photo above are a Tesla, a Leaf, and another Tesla. There's no Volt shown.
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It looks like Electrify America EV charges at Charleston Plaza are almost ready for use.
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Here's a Rheem heat pump spec sheet. My interpretation is that you can use a duct to reduce the space required. Web Link Rheem residential heat pump web page - Web Link
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Here is the real data de Ja vu. Mayor Burt spearheaded the Mayfield Agreement between Stanford & the City . The City got a soccer field w a petroleum smelly turf. Stanford got the former Mayfield Elementary site (historic). Where before a school, cows were corralled from top of old Page Mill. Stanford also got 165 high end units above Cal Ave, now Stanford Terrace. The City GOT all electric, super low end 71 units of low bottom units of ALL electric, all ADA designed floor plans 4 us hard working service working families who mostly are not ADA residents. Cupboards covered in vinyl & fall off the “hidden” hinges, carpets 100%petroleum based, electric boilers that don’t work, household appliances that crack & broke in months, rents that get raised 12% a year. Segue (the demonstrative Co. that Berkeley dealt w 6 tragic deaths 4 a waterlogged balcony in 2015). Yeah. Mayfield Place near did not open. My two small children were unhoused for a month after a year of draconian, arduous lease up. Because? They made some bad 3rd party errors!! In the final 6 months of completion, every code was shorted by 2” in each unit to save w/out viable, secure parking or family sized washers or a true community space to stretch out.. Dollars were saved at the expense of families growing, being, living, thriving. What residents now have is a half completed unit that imbibes a temporary camping out situation, until something better comes along. Yet. nothing better — is waiting forever to 4 nothing. Short changed in an environment that has no absolutes, clueless as to what & who or where humans evolve, grow & become. Yeah. I am pissed. Tax credit bldg that is getting dividends by shorting the sq ft, where the bank loans cannot measure. So much for family, so much for inclusion, so much 4 life. It’s a 21st Century “warm” water flats. And lease violations & cruel Related management oversees it. By all means: Build your Hudson NYC Yard, Related! Yet, give us hard laborers achance to live.
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BTW Facades show nothing. The exterior designed by David Baker & Assoc of Sac is just that! A facade. Yes. Our exterior facade is uber beautiful to pass by w palo Alto trade mark redwood and red farm house door, and ferns . Yet. I invite you in for a closer look into our interior world, the existing of us, & meaningful work/life to us and to u, the labor of the poor who support the needed services of well-to-do here!
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@ MyFeelz online might delete my previous comments as multiple posts., yes I have Sen pictures of Cadillac Desert. Yet as the the first “Planet of the Apes” movie used Malabu beach for thier shot of the sunken Statue of Liberty to reveal a cataclysmic image of the future, is enough. Until I see, the sea rise on our Cali coast Bay lands, I will not see and only steal scape as true horizon on our front. I invite you to sign the Palo Alto rental stabilization petition. If not now, when? Look for it, us. Feelz like u on our side!
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I so love the line in the beginning of the 1939 movie “The wizard of Oz” when Auntie Em tells the farm hand (later Scarecrow) as he pulls Dorothy, heroically from the hog pen. “Don’t start posing for your statue now” meaning yes you did a good deed , but the farm needs your undivided attention to function. Our Mayer Burt, DuBois, Filseth are posing for thier Mitchell Park statues now, before the good, hard work is done. Note: who of them is first in line to install an all electric heat pump? It’s egregious and flagrant abuse of power, gov resources to serve themselves. Gross.
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Here is one for the record. Casablanca when shuttering Rick’s Cafe, a safe haven for WWll refugees., .captain Renault , just after pocketing his winnings, and coupled w the Nazi’s demands of him close the establishment, “I am shocked, shocked gambling is going on here !” Our CC is shocked too but not before pocketing their “winnings”!
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@James and others. Check out Sherry Listgarten's excellent blog here, where she has posted extensively about the practical aspects of installing a HPWH, including closet installations using a duct to access more air.
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@N to the B, there are alternatives with LIHTC properties, to make real change on that front. It can be done by contacting the CTCAC to request an inspection. They are the governing agency that regulates tax credit buildings. One caveat: I don't recommend this if you have children, because part of "real change" may end up with you living on the street. Search this document to see if your housing developer is in compliance: Web Link PS I didn't know we have a PA rent stabilization petition. Isn't that an East PA thing? @Mondoman, I think the contract the city has made will determine what type of equipment will be installed. Though it doesn't prevent anyone from buying a different type and having a licensed contractor install it and a licensed electrician wire it up ... but the permitting could be a nightmare for anyone BUT the chosen golden contractor named in the $7.7 million contract. Can't say for sure, but some here who have already investigated getting it done by anybody but Synergy suggest it will be daunting. Maybe Sherry can suggest something.
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Read Diana Diamond's excellent blog about all the non-answers she's gotten from city officials about the city's readiness to meet increased demands for electricity. Web Link All such costly virtue-signalling projects should be put on hold until our "leaders" provide some concrete answers. Sloganeering doesn't keep the lights on, something all Palo Altans expect. How about spending the money on fixing the electrical grid instead of wasting $143,000,000 on the risky unproven fiber project.
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@MyFeelz: Mondoman and James are right, closet installations are very common and one way to do it is to duct the inlet and/or outlet of the heat pump water heater. Most (but not all) closet installations that I've seen do that. Others just have louvers in the door/wall, as shown in the spec that James links to. The city's program includes proper ventilation. @ElDuderino is right that if you install a HPWH in a small, unvented space, it will run very inefficiently. That is also true if you install one that is too small for your needs, since it will end up using the electric resistance a lot. (That element uses 3300-6600 watts instead of 400 watts). But his claim that you need a 12x12 room is not correct. I think that, because the city is investing so much in this program, you are unlikely to get cheaper and/or better service by hiring your own contractor. One possible exception is SunWork, which does simple installs for around $4500, which comes out a little below the city's $2700 price with their $2300 rebate. If you have a simple garage installation, you might call SunWork instead. But there is no reason afaict for a resident not to sign up for the city's HPWH program. At worst, you will learn that your water heater is difficult/costly to electrify and that's still useful for you (and the city) to know. That's my 2c.
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The point that is not ever mentioned in these dreamscape aspirations of the city council, and others who believe so whole heartedly in this project, is that it will have no effect on global warming whatever, not one iota, zero, zilch! Another one of those "if everyone does it it will have an big effect" propositions, except that is probably false and everyone is not going to do it. Global warming is probably a done deal and thinking more in terms of measures to take to deal with the results would be far more useful than blowing large sums on wishful thinking projects. The Council would be better off spending their time figuring out how to fix the potholes!
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