Thanks for the pointer to the heat pump bottleneck thread. I take this as good news. I assumed a Marshall Plan for heat pumps was actually impossible, but apparently it’s just the usual society-level learned helplessness? Heat pumps really are low hanging fruit? 🤷
Sidenote, must watch Technology Connections video on why heat pumps are amazing for reducing natural gas usage even when your power is generated from natural gas plants.
On Germany importing non Russian gas—I understand Germany’s ship-based import capacity is bottlenecked by ports with LNG terminals, which really can’t be built in a year. But it looks like it’s possible to use some kind of specialized ship as a floating LNG terminal that acts as an intermediary (with some efficiency losses, of course) but it could increase import capacity more than previously thought. (Article is German and beyond paywall, but it says Germany is trying to rent such specialized ships for this year.)
Yeah, heat pumps keep looking great from all angles, aside from one person who claimed that you have to choose between ‘will actually work’ and ‘will reliably not burn down your house’ which I didn’t have a chance to investigate. I don’t know that they rise to ‘cause area’ levels of good idea, but it would not surprise me at this point if they did.
Thanks for the pointer to the heat pump bottleneck thread. I take this as good news. I assumed a Marshall Plan for heat pumps was actually impossible, but apparently it’s just the usual society-level learned helplessness? Heat pumps really are low hanging fruit? 🤷
Sidenote, must watch Technology Connections video on why heat pumps are amazing for reducing natural gas usage even when your power is generated from natural gas plants.
On Germany importing non Russian gas—I understand Germany’s ship-based import capacity is bottlenecked by ports with LNG terminals, which really can’t be built in a year. But it looks like it’s possible to use some kind of specialized ship as a floating LNG terminal that acts as an intermediary (with some efficiency losses, of course) but it could increase import capacity more than previously thought. (Article is German and beyond paywall, but it says Germany is trying to rent such specialized ships for this year.)
Yeah, heat pumps keep looking great from all angles, aside from one person who claimed that you have to choose between ‘will actually work’ and ‘will reliably not burn down your house’ which I didn’t have a chance to investigate. I don’t know that they rise to ‘cause area’ levels of good idea, but it would not surprise me at this point if they did.