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Written by Jan Rosenow on 2024-12-11 at 13:59

There is a huge amount of ambient and waste heat available.

Using it with heat pumps in buildings and industry is multiple times more efficient than burning fossil fuels.

It makes the problem we try to solve significantly smaller and allows us to use free pre-existing heat.

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Written by Solar 🌄Garden on 2024-12-11 at 14:36

@janrosenow ...and that looks like a rather conservative [S]COP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Performance

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Written by kimon keramidas on 2024-12-11 at 16:47

@janrosenow and if you go economy-wide you get such Sankey diagrams that show that you can transform your energy system, massively shift towards #electrification, reduce emissions, reduce wasted heat, all the while increasing energy services across the board to raise standards of living worldwide.

Source: #JRCGECO scenarios https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/scientific-activities-z/geco_en #energytransition

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