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Heating could have been switched to heat pumps (and will need to anyway at some point), had they not bathed in natgas for tens of years (thanks Schröder!). Tha

• pgeorgi 4y ago
  > had they not bathed in natgas for tens of years (thanks Schröder!). Schröder wasn't around in 1969 when the first contracts for russian gas have been closed. > Heating could have been switched to heat pumps We have 12 million gas boilers. Last year, we had an install capacity of 165k heat pumps. The government is trying to up that to 500k per year. Even in this (somewhat optimistic) scenario, that would be 24 years of work. So yes, we need to start doing that. But until last year, we had 16 years of governments that did fuck-all for renewables.
  • steeve 4y ago
    Imagine if that was started on 2002 when Energiewende was voted, it'd be 4 years to go. That it takes a long time is never a good excuse not to do something, rather the opposite.