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> No not quite, burning fuel for heat locally will always be at least twice as effective as ideal conversion to power Except NOT having to heat is even more ef
by jhgb 5y ago
> No not quite, burning fuel for heat locally will always be at least twice as effective as ideal conversion to power
Except NOT having to heat is even more effective than burning fuel for heating locally. So the move away from gas heating to low-energy buildings is definitely stimulated by higher gas prices.
> Same thing for france.
I doubt that, since France seem to be actually using their interconnects. Can't comment on Sweden, though.
- midjji 5y agoInsulation is exactly as beneficial to gas and power heated homes. It does jack shit or worse for cooking though. France is self sufficient, but imports when prices are low in order to keep levels high in reservoirs, which further decreases prices over the year.
- danhor 5y agoFor cooking induction plates are much more efficient, transferring 90% of the energy as opposed to ~50% with gas stoves. Together with a gas plant efficiency of ~50%, they comes close in efficiency. Gas stoves still come out on top price-wise, but part of that are asinine taxes, where gas is taxed less than electricity.
- monopoledance 5y agoOr when their nuclear power plants boil their rivers...
- nitrogen 5y agoAre there closed loop reactor designs that don't need to dump heat into a body of water?
- hollerith 5y agoThermodynamics says that it needs to dump heat somewhere, but maybe they can dump it into the atmosphere instead using hyperboloid cooling towers. Those are huge though (at least "natural draft" ones are) and usually made of concrete, and making the concrete currently requires lots of carbon emissions.
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- pyrale 5y ago> France is self sufficient Actually, not currently. A combination of regulator-mandated nuclear plant stops, scheduled nuclear plant maintenance and fossil plant closures means that France currently relies on importing a lot currently. Your statement is true generally, but France's situation currently contributes to high energy prices.