Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by jupp0r on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:34AM
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Of course that's more efficient but won't matter (from an environmental perspective, might still make economic sense) in a few years when all electricity comes from carbon free sources. If this won't be the case then heating will be the least of our problems.
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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by trashtester on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:56AM
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I think you're optimistic if you think we'll have zero carbon electricity production in a few years, at a scale that will allow us to replace all NG and oil heating with electrical, especially without heat pumps.
Even if we make it a primary priority, and try to maximally ramp up both wind, solar and nuclear production (+ storage as needed), I don't think we will be able to do it in less than 30 year, 20 at best.