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Well, don't do that exactly, they're inefficient (but at least they're cheap). Ideal would be every house having a heat pump installed. Then you can heat a ho

Well, don't do that exactly, they're inefficient (but at least they're cheap). Ideal would be every house having a heat pump installed. Then you can heat a home much more efficiently using electricity than just going resistive.

Balero 4y ago
That won't make a massive difference for this winter thought. They need a fix that is going to be months away, not years.
thinkcontext 4y ago
The problem with heat pumps is scale. 30M out of Germany's 40M homes use gas or oil for heat. Last year 150K heat pumps were installed in the country. The government has set a goal of 500K installed per year by 2024 with 6M total reached by 2030. Every one possible should be installed, it just won't make a dent.
ParksNet 4y ago
A lot of homes and apartments already have AC. They are heat pumps. Just use them in heat mode.
freeflight 4y ago
Heat pump hardware, and installation talent, is massively supply constrained and can't keep up with the demand. [0] [0] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/europes-booming-demand-for-heat-pumps-exposes-bottlenecks/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/eur...