Jan RosenowDec 11, 2024

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.

Show threadkimon keramidas
@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
GECO

GECO provides a global picture of energy markets as they transform over the next decades, under the simultaneous interactions of economic development, technological innovation and climate policies.

EU Science Hub
Dec 11, 2024 at 4:47pmWeb