The surprising climate fix that Democrats and Republicans both love. Politicians across the spectrum want more housing. Apartments are a great answer, because they also slash carbon emissions in a big way. Apartments are “an almost automatic form of building decarbonization.”

It makes a lot more sense to add solar, heatpumps and EVs to existing housing stock than building millions of concrete and steel apartments.

A big part of China’s CO2 bump was their housing boom due to exactly this same plan.

> According to a new report, these units are “an almost automatic form of building decarbonization,” because three-quarters of new apartments are heated electrically. That means they can run on rooftop solar panels or tap into grids humming with clean energy, instead of burning plant-warming natural gas in furnaces or boilers.

In USA if they are using resistance heating then they are actually releasing more CO2 than natural gas boilers.

> Because of this inherent efficiency, apartment builders have for decades opted to install what’s called electric resistance heating, like baseboard heaters, instead of gas furnaces.