it cannot be the only source of heat in a lot of cold climates.
I live in Finland. Heat pump is the only source of heat in my house.
What happens when the power goes out
The same thing that happens when you have electric or gas heating. It stops working, because none of those work without electricity nowadays. Hell if you have a coal/wood burner for central heating chances are it doesn't work without electricity either.
how often do you think the power goes out in finland
How often does it got out in Germany At least Finland built a Nuclear reactor to power most of the country unlike Germany which shut all their's down
In my house? Pretty much never. We have solar as well as a grid connection and can connect a generator as well.
In fact, I even have a second stand alone portable solar system that we take camping. It's not powerful enough to heat a house... but it is powerful enough for pretty much everything else. And I can heat my house with a fire if it came to that.
Redundancy is the name of the game if you're worried about reliability.
afaik power never really goes out in western europe unless something happens to the infrastructure (e.g. lightning strike or tree falling on a power line), what instead happens when we run out of generation capacity is that prices skyrocket.
Well it obviously stops working and unless you have some other means of heating your house you're kinda fucked and can only hope it comes back on soon as it generally does.
I live in Finland. Heat pump is the only source of heat in my house.
What happens when the power goes out
The same thing that happens when you have electric or gas heating. It stops working, because none of those work without electricity nowadays. Hell if you have a coal/wood burner for central heating chances are it doesn't work without electricity either.
how often do you think the power goes out in finland
How often does it got out in Germany At least Finland built a Nuclear reactor to power most of the country unlike Germany which shut all their's down
In my house? Pretty much never. We have solar as well as a grid connection and can connect a generator as well.
In fact, I even have a second stand alone portable solar system that we take camping. It's not powerful enough to heat a house... but it is powerful enough for pretty much everything else. And I can heat my house with a fire if it came to that.
Redundancy is the name of the game if you're worried about reliability.
afaik power never really goes out in western europe unless something happens to the infrastructure (e.g. lightning strike or tree falling on a power line), what instead happens when we run out of generation capacity is that prices skyrocket.
Well it obviously stops working and unless you have some other means of heating your house you're kinda fucked and can only hope it comes back on soon as it generally does.