October 2, 2019
Heating: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? Burning carbon-based fuels is not a good idea if we want to avoid emissions of carbon dioxide. Despite this, Europe (as an example) is burning a lot of fossil fuel in order to provide heat. Approximately 25 % of final energy use in the EU-28 goes to space heating and 15 % to process heating. Three quarters of the heat is produced directly with fossil fuels and a portion of the remainder comes partially from fossil-based electricity. It looks like heating is a big problem, but in this post I will posit that heating could become an important part of the solution instead.…
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