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Interestingly, a lot of Belgian houses still use oil (mazout) furnaces.
by boobsbr 5y ago
Interestingly, a lot of Belgian houses still use oil (mazout) furnaces.
- nikanj 5y agoBelgium is still(!) planning on shutting down nuclear plants. Not sure how they justify the added dependency on Russian energy
- natmaka 5y agoThere are many not-so-patent dependencies: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-us-utilities-push-white-house-not-sanction-russian-uranium-2022-03-02/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-us-utiliti...
- masklinn 5y agoIirc france is still around 10% oil, despite the first rumours of their ban starting in the early aughts. But that used to be a lot more common, these days it’s become rare outside of rather rural places for which a gas network is not economically viable. Basically as oil furnaces reached EOL, people would replace them with gas if they had a muni gas network (“gaz de ville”, literally city gas), because the country subsidised switching away from oil furnaces.