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This article is so stupid for not mentioning energy costs. It's like Europeans don't use AC because they want to degrowth or something.
by GaggiX 1y ago
This article is so stupid for not mentioning energy costs. It's like Europeans don't use AC because they want to degrowth or something.
- nailer 1y agoEnergy costs are high because of the European culture of degrowth - Germany shut down all its nuclear plants in favour of buying Russian gas and oil.
- GaggiX 1y agoGermany also was the biggest country for solar energy, what it's essentially making a huge chunk of the energy production in summer in Europe, what started the industrialization of solar panels, making them dirt cheap. (Also Europe is not just Germany making a dumb decision before)
- lupusreal 1y agoSolar has obvious downsides, but it happens to be essentially the perfect source of power for running AC. Hot weather has a very strong correlation with sunny weather! So blaming overly enthusiastic solar adoption for reticence to use AC doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
- f1shy 1y agoThe dynamic energy price in Germany in sunny days even goes to negative: they pay you for using energy! Crazy. But there is lots and lots of solar systems. I know relatively many people installing 2 way heat pumps, so it may be changing.
- f1shy 1y agoNot really. The plan is to change for renewables. If they will be able to is another discussion.
- Muromec 1y agoNobody (no mainstream party that is actually in government) is really taking degrowth as a goal.
- dkiebd 1y agoThe purpose of a system is what it does.
- rf15 1y agoalso the additional heat you produce outside of the building... making some AC-dense city areas even more unbearable at 40°C than they already are.
- wenc 1y agoEnergy costs are much lower with heat pumps. But cost of heat pump is higher up front.