| ▲ | mschuster91 20 hours 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 3 hours 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. | ||