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Indeed. If you're going to be heating all those houses with electricity, instead of gas, coal, or wood, then you'll likely need much more than 1kW per home. Esp
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Indeed. If you're going to be heating all those houses with electricity, instead of gas, coal, or wood, then you'll likely need much more than 1kW per home. Especially when winter hits -30C.
- mjevans 4y agoIt would be nice if much of the waste heat could be expelled in ways more similar to Iceland's geothermal solutions.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoRussia has directed waste heat fron reactors into the district heating network, it's perfectly realistic.
- sudosysgen 4y agoNot just Russia, it was relatively common across the Soviet bloc.
- jamincan 4y agoThe Bruce Nuclear plant in Ontario had an industrial development adjacent to it to take advantage of steam from the plant, but I don't think it ever really went anywhere and they demolished the infrastructure related to it in the early 2000s.
- tenuousemphasis 4y agoIf you build your house better, you won't need very much energy at all to heat or cool it. The passive house standard used in Sweden calls for a maximum of 20 kWh/(m²yr), which translates to ~3,700 kWh per year for a 2,000 ft² home.
- tintedfireglass 4y agoHere in asia we use 1.5KWh approx per year. It is a real thing
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- tenuousemphasis 4y agoWhat do you mean? Kilowatts isn't a measure of energy. Kilowatts pet year makes no sense. Asia is a continent with many different climates.
- tintedfireglass 4y agoI meant KWH(units) its a typo And the country is India