[PLUG-TALK] Heat pump opinions, installers?

[Keith Lofstrom]

Anyone have recommendations for heat pumps brands and
westside Portland installers?  Our gas furnace and air
conditioner still work, but a heat pump and solar panels
can be more cost effective, averaged over many years. 

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The decades-old coolant in our air conditioner is no longer
legal to manufacture, but it can be extracted and resold to
others (legally) for a surprising amount of money.

Perhaps because some specialized $$$$$$ scientific or 
manufacturing equipment still uses the same coolant. 

I doubt that the coolant will pay for much of the replumb,
but I hope to extract it for recycling before the coolant
plumbing springs a leak, and I need to replace the system
anyway.

Keith L.

P.S.  Note also that PGE power includes a surprising 
fraction of solar and wind, in addition to hydro and
natural gas.  And they pay a feed-in tariff for large
home solar systems.  While that intermittent power
thrashes grid capacity somewhat, the hydro dams and
impoundments on the Columbia are spaced and "tuned"
to accommodate thrashing daily base load. 

P.P.S.  Maybe the less-agile fish that can't manage
fish ladders around dams are dying for a Good Cause. 
Evolution In Action, as my frenemy Jerry Pournelle
labelled terminally stupid behavior.  

P.P.P.S.  Capitalized "Good Causes" are often Not.

P.P.P.P.S.  Top quoting entire emails is a Not Good Cause.
Please extract just the lines you are kvetching about, and
file the rest on /dev/null.
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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com