>Using US houses as an example is quite laughable, the energy consumptions of US households is much higher than German ones. It's an extremely heterogeneous da

>Using US houses as an example is quite laughable, the energy consumptions of US households is much higher than German ones. It's an extremely heterogeneous dataset, but a cursory analysis does not agree: Germany: 136 kWh/m^2 https://bpie.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/iBROAD_CountryFactsheet_GERMANY-2018.pdf https://bpie.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/iBROAD_CountryFac... US: 47000 Btu/ft^2 — because we like dumb units — 148 kWh/m^2 https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/looking-at-energy-use-in-us-residential?s=r https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/looking-at-energy... That's a slight win for Germany, but it's not by much. For the most part, US houses are simply larger than German ones, which is where that energy use comes from. (US temperatures are also harsher, in both directions.)