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Originally Posted by Azure
Someone break down the benefits of Europe rapidly transitioning to heat pumps in the next year as if I'm a 5 year old.
And then also explain to me why it hasn't already happened.
You can get heat pump based hot water heaters that are insanely efficient. Nevermind heat pumps for everything else.
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The marginal kW of electricity in Europe is produced using German thermal coal. It's extremely dirty and extremely expensive.
So the reason it hasn't happened yet is political hysteria around using nuclear power as a baseload energy source. If that changes heat pumps will become a plausible choice.