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Right the evil greens trying to secure a future for our children.
by MrMan 4y ago
Right the evil greens trying to secure a future for our children.
- katbyte 4y agoBuy pushing to close nuclear reactors and burn more fossil fuels?
- hef19898 4y agoIt is getting annoying, but nuclear does nothing against a gas shortage / higher gas prices. Electrical energy =|= thermal enegy...
- pliny 4y agowhen you pass an electrical current through a resistor you get heat. you can read about this concept here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heating_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heating_element
- hef19898 4y agoDon't you say. Is there also a wikipedia article on how to replace all industrial, commercial and domestic heating infrastructure with those? Europe wide?
- pliny 4y agoElectric radiators are quite cheap (they retail for less than $100), and homes in the cold parts of europe are typically well insulated, and if you bought a radiator for every person in the eu (0.5B * $100) it would cost .3% of europe's gdp ($18 trillion), or 5% of the eu's budget for 1 year. This helps reduce the reliance on gas for domestic heating.
- hef19898 4y agoThose heaters heat one room, not a house or appartment complex. They consume a ton of electricity, are higly inefficient and don't heat your water supply. And while they maybe cheap (are those cheap ones rated for contonous usage or are they some cheap Wish knockoffs?) they are not available in sufficient numbers... Seriously, how comes that people fail to realize how complex things around them are, like infrastructure? These things are not like a consumer grade app or some ride share business...
- jfim 4y agoMost of the houses I've seen in Canada are heated using baseboard heaters, they're not exactly uncommon. Efficiency seems fine, and most of Europe doesn't get as cold as Canada during winter.
- Scoundreller 4y agoWhere in Canada? Almost everything on the nat gas grid has furnace heating. In the sticks you’ll have wood biomass, propane or kerosene heat. Anyone using electric baseboards is getting highly subsidized electricity because any other energy source is cheaper. Only place I saw baseboard heating was in school portables.
- jfim 4y agoQuébec. Then again that might be because of the low electricity prices there.
- 8note 4y agoBC too. I imagine it goes hand in hand with hydro
- ricardobeat 4y agoI'm standing on floor heating at this very moment (off, of course). It uses district heating / hot water, which could be heated by any kind of energy source, including nuclear.
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- DocTomoe 4y agoJust like their brown predecessors promised to do...