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		Dnguyen on March 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold ... So the difference in cost between natural gas and ElectricAir is ~ 400/yr. And it costs $14,000 to install the ElectricAir system. It will take a very long time to break even. It will be very difficult to convince people with current working natural gas system to switch over.

imhoguy on March 13, 2023 [–]

Unless the ruling changes and one won't be able to install fossil fuel based heating, like in EU soon.

garduque on March 13, 2023 | [–]

Sure but his target market is North America, where I don't think there is too much danger of dropping fossil fuel heating anytime soon.

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