All heat pumps are, with few exceptions, namely the new devices using propane as a refrigerant, extremely harmful to the environment and should also be more or less banned.
Quick question. How many homeowners currently have a modern heat pump with propane?
All current heat pumps that you buy new now, and that's what it's about. Anyone who still buys another type now is at least as lost as people who still install gas and oil heating systems.
There is also often the comparison with Norway or Denmark. Cold winter temperatures and electric heating. But that is not a problem there. In Norway, electricity costs 4 cents per kilowatt-hour. Here we are over 40 cents.
Income in Norway is significantly higher than in Germany and yet they pay only a tenth of the German price for their electricity. We are talking about completely different conditions.
Currently, you can get new contracts for just under 30 cents per kWh.
At 4 cents electricity price for heat pump electricity, a flow temperature of 60 degrees electrically heated is of course feasible and would also be economically justifiable.
You could then leave the radiators in place. But that is where the interest of the state in climate protection ends very quickly.
That’s why underfloor heating and/or radiators for low flow temperatures.
And of course I have underfloor heating in my bathrooms. It is also comfortable there. But I just don’t want underfloor heating in the other rooms. I simply don’t feel comfortable there. Likewise, I don’t feel comfortable in these new airtight insulated houses.
The living climate in most new houses is a disaster. Of course, no one admits this.
I see it very differently. I currently live in a KFW55 apartment with underfloor heating and find the climate much better than in my old old building apartment. The warmth is much more evenly distributed, there are no cold corners, and if you sit in front of a wall, it is not ice cold. Overall, the warmth feels much “fuller,” I can’t think of a better description right now. Have you ever walked over tiles in an old building apartment after the window was open for 5 minutes? Very cold.
The whole climate discussion is just a shadow discussion. When it comes to electricity storage for photovoltaics and wind power, nothing significant happens.
Actual reduction of emissions globally? None.
Besides, for such electrical consumption orgies, we neither have the grids nor sufficient electricity.
What does that have to do with heat pumps? And whether we have the capacities in Germany or not is not the problem of us end customers. The climate, however, is. Surely enough people who have much more expertise than all of us together are taking care of that. And they also will not have written the law without prior discussions with all relevant parties. That always belongs to the process.
Globally, we can only reduce emissions if we lead by example as a country. But just because others don’t care doesn’t mean it can be indifferent to us.
And to make it clear and explicit with typical AfD slogans. The business location Germany and also the citizens are and will be coldly expropriated.
No one is being expropriated here by the state over whatever reasons. In recent years, we have simply missed everything in this direction. Now it has to go fast, and for that, maybe we all have to make some concessions. However, when we are done with all this crap someday and can generate most of our electricity from renewables, everything will become cheaper again and prosperity will be higher than before. What do you think how electricity is so cheap in Norway?
Installing a gas heating system now is simply stupid for both the wallet and the climate. It will not take 5 more years until CO2 is really taxed very, very expensively. And if you want normal radiators or are simply not convinced, then you will probably have to come to terms with the fact that this will no longer be possible. Not everything has to be possible if it harms everyone else. Your own freedom ends where that of others begins.