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krichuvisz t1_j8i0m5a wrote

Reply to comment by Jaker788 in Economist: War and subsidies may have knocked as much as ten years off green transition by 10drinkminimum

Unlucky if your electric power is produced with gas.

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Jaker788 t1_j8i8p85 wrote

Amazingly it's more efficient to generate electricity with a gas turbine and use an electric heat pump than to use it directly at 95% efficiency. Gas turbines are usually 60% efficient since they don't use steam turbines, they use essentially a turbojet.

But with the new generation capacity being a large portion of renewables and grid scale energy storage projects such as moss landing and others will help stabilize the capacity, it's really a short term problem. Meanwhile the electric based appliances you have will only get more efficient as the grid gets more efficient and the gas ones will stay the same.

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SatanLifeProTips t1_j8im04g wrote

And they are adding green power fast. 75% of all new power builds in 2023 are renewables including a massive amount of battery storage.

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Psychomadeye t1_j8i71bm wrote

Oh no, using only 20% of the gas you'd use otherwise! Literally the worst!

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Splenda t1_j8imo9u wrote

>Unlucky if your electric power is produced with gas.

Not really, because it won't be for long. Gas is now a dead man walking.

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