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wbl 10 months ago

France has 80% zero carbon all the time. Why not resistive heating?

pfdietz 10 months ago | parent | next [-]

It's expensive compared to heat pumps, especially if you also want air conditioning.

fsh 10 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

According 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

mschuster91 10 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 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 10 months ago | parent [-]

> 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.

UltraSane 10 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Heat pumps reduce electricity usage by at least 3x and also provide cooling.

Scoundreller 10 months ago | parent | prev [-]

They lose out on export revenue