As with all heating relying on water for energy transport, absolutely when building new buildings, but will cost an arm if you add it in a remodeling.

As for solar capture in Sweden, there are a few places that try to store heat in sandpits, among others a high school in Stockholm. And on that subject the Finns must be mentioned😊 Will be interesting to follow!

The question is: is it efficient enough during the cold season? Cyprus, situated in the middle of the Mediterranean heat reservoir and with plenty of daylight during the off season seems to be well situated.

As for the need: I’m from up north, our houses are built to keep heat inside as that is most positive for our energy consumption. In the south, houses try to limit the need for cooling. The effect of which became very clear to me when I went to the Mediterranean in November. Heating? Yea please.

I’m itching for a shovel, though…

Oh, it’s funny because it’s true.

Now I need to go cry in a corner, because it’s true

I feel that is the issue with this post to begin with. Is it a shitpost or not? Seems more like a load of hot air to me

As long as we find a way to make use of the excess electricity produced, yes. Today we don’t have enough intermittent energy users. For storage, or otherwise.

There are initiatives calling for/demanding an expanded hydrogen infrastructure, for instance, so that could be one thing. I believe Germany is the leading country of such initiatives.

That’s what we are reduced to. That is what I mean. I also say that in the EU directive called EED, the union demands that, starting 2026, every public body needs to put PV-cells on the roofs of the buildings they use.

That will be noticeable.

I wish we could. That capacity is already booked. The batteries we are deploying needs to be used as local storage. And this is before the EU mandate on solarpanels on all roof tops has taken effect. The grid can’t expand at that rate, unfortunately.

slow clap

That’s not a straight line, although it is possible to follow without changing direction😊

Which states is it you are referring to? And which countries? And what is it that you think qualifies as being “further left” in this case?

You said it yourself. Still undiscovered. The technology we have today can’t be used to save more than a day or so of electricity. We need to handle months. Finding more energy dense ways of doing it is crucial.

And even if we burn it and put it back in the air, it is still positive, because we won’t have added more from oil. And if we get enough of the stuff we can let the trees grow, which would be a carbon sink.

Step 1: stop using oil. If we use the methane as is, we’ve accomplished this step.

Step 2: scrub carbon from atmosphere. Upping the game and replacing wood for heating would let the trees scrub the atmosphere, creating carbon sinks

Step 3: accelerate. Can processed methsne be stored in energy dense compounds? Like oil was?

Batteries may be more efficient, but we can’t use them to store all the energy we need. And heat pumps still need electricity when there is less renewable electricity available.

Looking at nature, long carbon chains are the way to store lots of energy and being able to use just electricity to get carbon out of the air is a great first step. Capturing the methane will allow us to process it further.

This is the best news regarding energy storage I’ve seen in a long time.

Well, there is a big discussion about nutrition among lupies, so maybe heuristics was on to something this time. On the other hand, in what group isn’t nutrition a topic?

Sorry, didn’t know jokes needed to be geotagged on this instance.

I see the Ukrainian alt army got upgradw on the infantry side.

So “it was only a joke” is also back on the menu? Wow, times are rolling back fast!

Even the term itself is a generalising stereotype. But it we are to have a somewhat serious discussion about it, I’d say It’s a human condition, not a gendered condition. For example, given what is (not) known about our respective genders, you felt the need to explain this.

So stereotyping gender is back on the menu? Are hair color jokes still taboo?

You dropped your /S ;)

I know where you are comming from, however. But the thing is, not doing that isn’t helping any either. And one thing that needs to be said, which isn’t reported on nearly as much as it should, the EU green deal, fit for 55, while it still isn’t enough, is legislation which has passed, which has teeth and which will keep EU working to reduce carbon emissions. And will keep us running as fast as we can to be able to make the cut offs and deadlines.