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>Good luck building enough spare nuclear to heat the entire continent by 40-90 degrees. Which non carbon heating or energy source do you suggest? The US doesn'
by modo_mario 4y ago
>Good luck building enough spare nuclear to heat the entire continent by 40-90 degrees.
Which non carbon heating or energy source do you suggest? The US doesn't seem to be warming up to heatpumps much and it's not like those are grand in those extreme conditions. The insulation standards there from what i've heard and compared are still quite bad (Not helped by the fact that AC and pure heating solutions common involve lots of airflow)
- mrep 4y agoI'm not suggesting we use a non carbon heating system. We already have methane furnaces all over the country, the storage for it, and the infrastructure to pipe it around. We just need to stop pulling it out of the ground and use electric -> methane power to gas which has a 51–65% efficiency range which combined with modern day furnaces that are 90+% efficient, is not too bad.
- modo_mario 4y agoSo they are still quite inefficient even if accept your efficiency range. Then there's the high costs associated with the catalysts or membranes, etc depending on what technology you use. We're not even using pumped storage nowhere near enough where possible and it's the vast majority of all utility scale storage but the amount of people that somehow champion power to gas as this grand thing that's anywhere close to being able to compete with it at scale is staggering.