Topic Energy Source / Gas / Photovoltaics:
Even with this topic, politics and the economy have completely overslept. In recent years, photovoltaics combined with a heat pump have been sold as the ultimate solution, stupid that hardly any electricity comes from the roof during heating times. Something has already been written about autonomy and feeding into the grid. Electricity must also be generated, but how now stably day and night, summer and winter? But the fact is also that these questions are finally coming to the table in a concentrated manner. As long as there is no need behind it, innovations will probably remain absent. I am curious about which clever solutions will emerge in the coming years and what the heating technology of the future will look like. We will probably have to come to terms in the coming years with electricity coming from the nuclear power plants in France.
For my part, I also rely on a wood source. This is also because I cut and store my own wood. Call the forester after a storm and then help accordingly... I have cut a few cubic meters in the last few days. In the sun-weak months additionally by wood and otherwise via the photovoltaic system without feeding into the grid.
Saving electricity will become a new expertise. All the devices in standby mode, the electrical gadgets here, automated gizmos there...
The non-fossil world does not consist only of private photovoltaics. That is one puzzle piece.
Wood gasifiers... nice example. We can also generate electricity centrally from wood, just as gas or oil could be converted into electricity if necessary. That is exactly the point, electricity is universal.
The joke is also that many say they are self-sufficient blablabla. In the end, they still want the remuneration and couple their system with the distribution grid. If the distribution grid fails, then in most cases their system also switches to the corresponding mode and they sit in the dark. In other words, photovoltaic does absolutely nothing for most people if it really hits the fan. Of course, until it comes to that, you are certainly better off than with gas etc., but you are absolutely not as secured as many think.