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Joezev98 t1_j4xvhux wrote

Reply to comment by valoon4 in Germany says it is no longer reliant on Russian energy by scot816

We're shutting off our gas fields because houses are quaking apart and the government is handling it so badly that some people wish that their houses would collapse on top of them. That would finally send the government the signal that something really needs to be done.

It's an absolute clusterfuck. Oh, and did I mention we have a housing crisis, so when the gas-extraction induced earthquakes make a house unsafe to live in, there's nowhere else for them to go. And on top of that, we've just had a big inflow of refugees that also have to be housed somewhere.

I doubt it'll take decades to shutt off the gas.

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Timey16 t1_j4zrohp wrote

Yeah Germany too is now on the way to FINALLY adopt heat pumps... but it will take many years to transform basically every building in the country. Especially since heat pumps used to be so uncommon, only very few companies can actually install them.

While a surge in the industry will cause new companies to arise, it will take a while for them to establish themselves.

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Janni0007 t1_j50ek1x wrote

Now lets not overreact even before the war there were 130000 new heatpumps installed in germany every year. It is not like this is entirely unknown territory. Seeing as we actually also produce heatpumps in large scale in germany ourselves, I do not see why we wouldnt be able to install a lot in a few years time. Current goal of the economy and climate minister is 500 000 new heatpumps each year.

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kraenk12 t1_j51x2po wrote

Main reason is most houses aren’t fit enough to really make the trouble worth it.

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