Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps(www.nytimes.com)
27 pointsby lxm8 hours ago6 comments
  • adjejmxbdjdn5 hours ago
    Electrification is a no brainer.

    Electricity is essentially an abstraction layer that decouples the source of energy from the consumer.

    Even if you want to remain 100% fossil fuel dependent, it still makes a lot more sense, outside of some industrial uses, to generate electricity with those fossil fuels and then use the electricity to power your actual device, whether it’s your air conditioning unit or your automobile, than to ship liquid gas to hundreds of thousands of gas stations all over or build pipes to send gaseous natural gas to every house.

    Not only is it more efficient, as any abstracted system, it allows far more flexibility and resilience due to that flexibility.

    • anon70004 hours ago
      100%. Also, fossil fuel is a bit ridiculous compared to renewables because you have to spend a huge amount of effort to find a new resource patch, extract the fuel, ship it all over the planet… just to burn it and it’s gone forever. Not a sustainable system for our energy at all.
  • belviewreview6 hours ago
    Remember how fossil fuel promoters always say its big advantage over solar and wind energy is reliability?
  • dzhiurgis4 hours ago
    Interesting timing that China is ending solar panel and battery export subsidies this year.

    Panel I've bought 15 months ago is 20% more expensive now.

    • chabesan hour ago
      Federal tax incentives in the US are also drying up and not being renewed. Unfortunately, the same thing is happening with state incentives in California. Many of these programs ended in the beginning of this year.
    • hdgvhicv2 hours ago
      Isn’t a lot of that due to currnecy and inflation?

      12 months ago 4300 yuan would cost 1000 NZD. 4400 yuan today (3% increase) would be about 1100 NZD.

  • ChrisArchitect7 hours ago
    Some discussions:

    Heat pump sales rise across Europe

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012003

    Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601310

  • Ati9856 hours ago
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    • anon70004 hours ago
      You look like an AI bot. Someone should report you
    • belviewreview6 hours ago
      Recover 98.04% of waste heat energy? That may follow the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, but it definitely violates the 2nd.
    • seventytwo6 hours ago
      Seems legit
    • bastawhiz6 hours ago
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