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> Replacing whole house heating with cheaper per-room heating seems like a downgrade because, well, it is. But there's a war going on and sacrifices have to be
by trashtester 4y ago
> Replacing whole house heating with cheaper per-room heating seems like a downgrade because, well, it is. But there's a war going on and sacrifices have to be made.
This would be pointless in Germany, though, since there isn't enough electricity in the European grid to make a short term switch for this many people. (Also the price for electricity is already still much higher than for NG).
For this year, it's already getting too late to act, apart from trying to make as much LNG as possible available to the public.
For the future, electrification of Eueope will need large investments in stable&affordable power production with incentives for homeowners to make the switch as it comes online. Typically such an incentive would be to gradually introduce a tax on NG that will eventually be high enough to squeeze it out of the market.
> The best time to start such a project would have been Friday, February 25th, 2022.
The best time to start this would have been 20-50 years ago.
> The second best time though is now.
True!