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France has 80% zero carbon all the time. Why not resistive heating?
by wbl 2y ago
France has 80% zero carbon all the time. Why not resistive heating?
- UltraSane 2y agoHeat pumps reduce electricity usage by at least 3x and also provide cooling.
- pfdietz 2y agoIt's expensive compared to heat pumps, especially if you also want air conditioning.
- fsh 2y agoAccording to the IEA [1], 43% of the energy consumption is oil (transportation, heating), 18% is natural gas (mostly heating), and 25% is electricity. Switching to resistive heating would require doubling the electricity production. Using heat pumps is much more efficient. [1] https://www.iea.org/countries/france/energy-mix https://www.iea.org/countries/france/energy-mix
- Scoundreller 2y agoThey lose out on export revenue
- mschuster91 2y ago> Why not resistive heating? Because France has a massive dependency on nuclear power... of course resistive heaters are cheaper than anything else when you got a ton of NPPs around. But their plants are all aging and are a nightmare to keep operational, so if they'd switch over to heat pumps their total energy demand would go down drastically.
- pfdietz 2y ago> of course resistive heaters are cheaper than anything else when you got a ton of NPPs around. No "of course" about that, especially with current heat pump technology and the fully loaded cost of power from new nuclear power plants.