Re:Top Europe court chides Switzerland in landmark climate r...
by gwd on Sunday April 14, 2024 @03:28PM
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Have you done the math that shows that the centralized "long time to heat-up" system, even assuming a certain amount of wasted heat, is actually less efficient than per-unit, fast-to-heat-up system? It's quite possible that
1. the loss from people opening their windows because it's too hot is still actually less than the loss of having a per-unit heating system.
2. the expense of adapting the system to allow per-unit controls is actually higher than the loss of people opening their windows because it's too hot.
I mean, it's also possible that the decision to centralize it was based on false assumptions, and that it actually is less efficient. But never underestimate the power of efficiencies of scale.
1. the loss from people opening their windows because it's too hot is still actually less than the loss of having a per-unit heating system.
2. the expense of adapting the system to allow per-unit controls is actually higher than the loss of people opening their windows because it's too hot.
I mean, it's also possible that the decision to centralize it was based on false assumptions, and that it actually is less efficient. But never underestimate the power of efficiencies of scale.