Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Habeck is at the top on every news site with his rambling.

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Why is electricity for heat pumps so much cheaper? I don't think it's right that the scarce gas is burned for electricity to heat. These tariffs should be abolished. It is important to relieve the load on gas power plants, and for that all consumers, including heat pump operators, must be motivated to save energy through appropriate prices.

Would you install a heat pump at 40-60 cents per kWh? :D But that depends on the municipal utilities, many municipal utilities have their own wind power, hydropower and solar power plants and therefore offer cheaper contracts for heating electricity. Many grid operators also charge lower grid fees for heating electricity, which makes the contracts another 5 cents cheaper.

Klaus Müller (head of the Federal Network Agency) said on Markus Lanz and in interviews that we are currently converting more gas into electricity than ever before to supply France. Recently, some hydropower plants have also failed due to low water levels (you can see this on the electricity exchange: Switzerland currently pays the highest price for electricity). What is happening in France should also be known. Hairline cracks in several nuclear power plants, some of which were also deliberately shut down for repairs and unplanned outages due to low water.

Otherwise, whoever operates a heat pump saves energy and should be "rewarded" for it. That gas heating systems, oil heating systems and pellet heating systems have lower efficiency compared to heat pumps is probably clear :D

We only have a small basement room... roughly about 10 sqm. I had requested 3cm insulation boards. I was somehow around €100 plus adhesive etc. I hadn't even inquired about renovation plaster yet.

Honestly, with such small quantities... I would always buy it when it becomes urgent. Maybe you want to insulate more in 3 months, or instead of styrofoam use resol hard foam (3 times as expensive, but energetically almost twice as efficient, wlg021) which saves you ceiling height as an example.

...I just looked into the federal debate and had to laugh heartily at Weidel. What is that?? Comedy? I've never seen her live before... wonderful :D You can't take that seriously....

I haven't seen it now. But Ms. Weidel usually gives some of the best speeches in the Bundestag elections. I think very highly of her, that woman has something in her head. If you look at the green women like Ricarda Lang, Emilia Fester, or Göring Eckard in comparison, you could really feel sick from so much incompetence.

Well, not everyone is like you, a construction professional who keeps up with the trade journals regularly. My cousin just missed the funding deadline in February, and that was the final blow to her construction project… guess what kind of fuss she’s making about it?!

If you depend on funding when you want to build, you probably shouldn’t build from the start. Our funding, which we have not yet received, amounts to about €34,000. However, this is not included in any financing nor will the house have to be sold if this funding falls through.

Then I'll babble now: Crises have always existed and still do. But currently, we are not experiencing crises. We are experiencing hardcore geopolitics combined with the sick fantasies of the elites.

You are sweet. What do you think the Roman Empire was? The Migration Period? The division of the church into East and West Roman? The Thirty Years' War? The French Revolution, the religious wars, witch burnings. It is always a mixture of geopolitics, resource distribution, and climate change with a pinch of social change and religion. Since the Stone Age.

I haven't seen that now. But Ms. Weidel usually delivers some of the best speeches in the Bundestag election. I think very highly of her, that woman has something going on in her head. If you look at the Green women like Ricarda Lang, Emilia Fester or Göring Eckard, you could really feel sick from so much incompetence.

Alice Weidel is fascinating in that she privately lives something that her party hates in every way. How she manages that will remain a mystery to me forever.