#heating
To date, #China, #Turkey, #Iceland and #Japan are the leaders in developing deep #geothermal #energy, #heating more and more city districts and greenhouses. In #Germany, the city of #Munich enjoys inexpensive geothermal heating and has set its sight on using the technology to make the sector climate neutral by 2035.
The German government is also looking at further developing deep geothermal energy to create a nationwide climate-neutral heat supply by 2045. Deep geothermal energy could generate around 300 terawatt hours of heat annually from an installed capacity of 70 GW — more than half the future heat demand of all buildings. According to analysis by six German research institutes, generating heat with deep geothermal energy costs less than three euro cents per kWh.
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#ClimateChange #Technology #TomorrowIsTooLate #GlobalWarming #Environment
In 50 minutes I'll get another 5 stèr of firewood; my Cuccinota eats much more logs than my old Plamen (simple cast iron stove). only since October it was fed with 7 stèr of spruce, cherry and beech wood logs, produces much more ash as well but, am happy that my neighbour Helmuth is gonna help me wheelbarrowing the wood down to my little barn...
#ExcessDeaths could rise as vulnerable skimp on #heating, #UK charities warn | UK #CostOfLivingCrisis | The Guardian
The #Tories are responsible and don't even pretend to care any longer.
Wonder how long I can stay warm without using the space heaters?
I am hoping to stay warm by using more layers to avoid using space heaters.
My beloved neighbors upstairs and downstairs keeping their place really warm. So I get heat from the floor and the ceiling. Plus winter sunlight keeps the kitchen, living room and spare bedrooms warm.
‘Life changing’: the social #housing helping to cut #heating #bills in #Norwich
Built to #Passivhaus standards, Goldsmith Street’s low-energy approach offers a pioneering approach to the housing #crisis
Even on the coldest day of the winter so far, tenants of a pioneering housing scheme say they do not need to turn on their heating. A blast of Arctic air has brought a dusting of snow to the Goldsmith Street housing scheme in Norwich, but inside “it’s like summer”, according to Jayed Abdas Samad, 32, a Just Eat delivery rider.
At a time of health fears for more than 3 million households struggling to pay for heating, Jayed and his neighbours can provide a glimpse of how much better it would be if the UK’s homes were properly insulated and ventilated.
Seems like there is a problem with #warmwater or the central #heating
Brr.
Water didn't get hot. I thought it was just a temporary thing in my apartment, but then a neigbor rang and had the same problem...And now I see that the temp in my living room is also down to 19C instead of 21C.
Staying warm: What does an unheated room do to your body? - BBC News
for keeping the glow over night I need bark briquettes... now, the price for them 12-hours-keeping-briquettes has gone up 40%
last year I paid €350 for one ton, this year it is €490... prices for firewood have gone up idiotically!
Plans are to phase out some things (flying, shipping, fossil fuels), and to reduce other things (heating, materials production, food energy) to 60% . https://ukfires.org/absolute-zero/?fbclid=IwAR2isR6cSM4VxSBGOe1wREqMHqmxQSTLp4t04aIJ-D4XJ1Z_DoeAuk3yswU #absolutezero #fossilfuels #heating #food #beef #lamb #flying #cars #vehicles #energy #appliances #construction
#Carbon #Removal Isn’t the #Solution to #Climate #Change
source: https://newrepublic.com/article/165996/carbon-removal-cdr-ipcc-climate-change
"But part of the reason we are about to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius is that these scenarios have acted as self-fulfilling prophesies. The scenarios have created the whole idea of carbon removal to show policymakers how we could continue to use #fossil #fuels and, supposedly, still hit our climate targets by 'reversing' global heating with massive amounts of CDR #technology. Instead of modeling how to stop using #coal, #oil, and #gas in time to halt warming directly, they have told policymakers 'we need CDR,' offering maps that have led us right to the levels of #warming we will see in the coming decades."
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"The models aren’t pricing in the risk that CDR might fail. Nor do they price the risks of the way that building and deploying planetary-scale CDR might compete with other industries or constrain energy supplies. They don’t consider the possibility that global heating might lead to fire or flood destroying bioenergy crops, making CDR itself more expensive and difficult. The integrated assessment models also assume that the economy is and will remain at full capacity, frictionless, and cost-optimized. And they take for granted the economy will continue to grow exponentially despite global #heating, because they estimate climate damages will cost only a few percentage points on the margins. And so they imagine that everyone will be richer later this century, which allows them to find that removing carbon dioxide later will be relatively cheaper than phasing out fossil fuels now."
#co2 #emissions #news #politics #economy #crisis #environment #pollution #future #world #earth #fail #problem
Boris gloats about free bus passes after hearing pensioner rides them all day to keep warm
‘She goes to the supermarket at the end of the day to buy yellow sticker discounted items. She gets up early in the morning to use her Freedom bus pass to stay on buses all day to avoid using energy at home.
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‘I just want to remind you, the 24 hour freedom bus pass was something I introduced’, he said.
#poverty #GB #politics #fail #wtf #omg #finance #problem #energy #heating #money #HumanRights
