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I wonder what the nuclear alternative is... a reactor in each building? Nuclear heating of such buildings would use heat pumps too.

• mpweiher 1y ago
  1. Nuclear district heating. 2. Just electric heating, if electricity is cheap enough. Very simple and cheap. But yeah, heat pumps make that more efficient. At significant higher investment costs. Gotta do the math of whether it is more efficient overall to invest in an efficient energy producer (nuclear), efficient consumers (heat pumps) or both.
  • pfdietz 1y ago
    Using resistive heating with nuclear electricity would be very foolish, unless you have a money wasting fetish. Nuclear district heating would be very difficult to retrofit.
    • mpweiher 1y ago
      > Using resistive heating with nuclear electricity would be very foolish, unless you have a money wasting fetish. Hmm. "... if electricity is cheap enough." > Nuclear district heating would be very difficult to retrofit. Who said anything about retrofitting? Just build district heating nuclear plants. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sollid_denmark-to-investigate-nuclear-energy-for-activity-7362054577048739840-KKxq/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sollid_denmark-to-investigate... Again, building one nuclear plant is expensive. But building tens or hundreds of thousands of heat pumps is certainly also and likely even more expensive.