▲ 86 ▼ Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery (www.cnbc.com) submitted 3 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) Germany: ~15% France: ~6–8% Netherlands: ~5–7% USA: <1% permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] variaatio@nord.pub 3 points 3 months ago yeah, well usually district heating is a thing in places where heating is major energy consumer. Russia, Nordic countries, Canada and so on. More temperate places don't have district heating, since the heating need isn't intense enough to warrant it. The network is expensive to build, but the vast economies of scale make the actual on going heating more efficient and cheaper. Whatever the heating source might be. Be it fuel burning boiler or industrial scale heat pumps. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] variaatio@nord.pub 3 points 3 months ago yeah, well usually district heating is a thing in places where heating is major energy consumer. Russia, Nordic countries, Canada and so on. More temperate places don't have district heating, since the heating need isn't intense enough to warrant it. The network is expensive to build, but the vast economies of scale make the actual on going heating more efficient and cheaper. Whatever the heating source might be. Be it fuel burning boiler or industrial scale heat pumps. permalink fedilink source parent