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Well, frankly one does. A heater on some of the walls has been enough for our family home in Norway for decades. Not sure how it's "wildly inefficient". Could a
by maaaats 7y ago
Well, frankly one does. A heater on some of the walls has been enough for our family home in Norway for decades. Not sure how it's "wildly inefficient". Could always install a heat pump if so.
And if it were true that one cannot just plug in some heaters, one would then have to integrate something better into one's home... how is that still more pain than having to exactly that for the gas to work? Not sure about the safety concerns are anything compared to burning gas, either.
- abdullahkhalids 7y agoThis law is for new buildings, and it makes complete sense to only install heat pumps instead of resistive heaters in new buildings.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI asked a friend in Florida what she has to heat her house. She has a heat pump with an air handler. For both heating/cooling. And that's just gob standard in her area because, no city gas. I feel like because this regulation is for new construction it'll have essentially zero negative effect on anyone.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoPerhaps the electrical standards in Europe allow for it, but in the US, a normal plug outlet is not designed to safely transfer the kind of power needed to heat a home for long periods of time. I’ve also never dealt with a situation where a place needed to be retrofitted with a heating solution, in which case running electrical wires might be just as much work as gas lines, but way more expensive in the long run in the US as gas prices are super cheap.