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In the North, AC will simply not show up on your energy footprint. Heating will most definitely. So yeah, electric heating is is. I hate electric heating as a u
by black_puppydog 7y ago
In the North, AC will simply not show up on your energy footprint. Heating will most definitely. So yeah, electric heating is is. I hate electric heating as a user, but nearly every apartment here in France has it. And since France is most nuclear, that's actually not bad in terms of CO2. For cooking there's induction, which easily competes with gas in terms of convenience IMHO, but yeah, for heating I'd like better solutions.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoWhat's wrong with electric heating?
- tetraca 7y agoWhy transfer 36% of a fire's energy hundreds of miles away to heat your home, when you can simply burn fire locally, and get 100% heat efficiency? In cold climates, it's far cheaper to use gas heating.
- black_puppydog 7y agoAlthough in fairness, it would be interesting to make that comparison after accounting for external costs of both. CO2 emissions for gas, and nuclear plant decommission /storage in case ofnjuclear power like here in France
- joncrane 7y agoInteresting how there, the trade-off of electricity for nuclear is so advantageous, that you can even do inefficient things with the electricity downstream and still come out ahead. Is electricity really cheap in France?
- kupiakos 7y agoInteresting, AC uses a massive amount of electricity during the summer in Illinois, a place which doesn't spare on cold winters.