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Everyone is looking for an easy answer to climate change / energy costs / energy independence etc. But there isn't one. Fusion remains decades away, Fission i
by LatteLazy 4y ago
Everyone is looking for an easy answer to climate change / energy costs / energy independence etc. But there isn't one. Fusion remains decades away, Fission is very expensive and unpopular, Most renewables are intermittent etc. Heat pumps are one more tech with very limited potential (range of temperatures, efficiency over that range, power output limits, need for a heat source, size, cost etc).
- wpietri 4y agoWait, you are telling a bunch of technologists that no technology is perfect? Stop the presses! Which, dang it, are clearly also an imperfect technology if we have to stop them every time there's fresh news.
- Freestyler_3 4y agoI don't follow how heat pumps have limited potential. They have big potential. Its not a one size fits all solution, that's all.
- thomasjb 4y agoWhat's your perspective on sustainable biomass usage such as pollarding and coppicing, and bringing energy usage inline with that which can be fueled by them, in addition to small scale wind?