Two climate journalists decided to decarbonize their home. Here's what happened.
My wife and I live in a green, two-story colonial at the end of a cul-de-sac in Burlington, Vermont. Each spring, the front of our home is lined with lilacs, crocuses, and peonies. The backyard is thick with towering black locust trees. We occasionally spot a fox from our office windows, or toddlers from the neighborhood day care trundling through the woods. It’s an alarmingly idyllic home, with one exception: It runs on natural gas. The boiler, which heats our house and our water, burns it.
But they generally run tens of thousands of dollars less—a factor that helps make them much more common, with sales outpacing gas boilers last year. It largely drove our decision as well. Because our house currently has baseboard heaters rather than ducts, we gravitated toward a “mini split” system. It consists of a condenser, installed outdoors, and an indoor unit called a “head,” with a thermostat and a fan that blows hot or cold air.
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