bardal wrote:You also have the right to be against vaccines, or IPCC theses ...
I regret that you pass arguments to bloubiboulga so quickly ....
Yes, it has long been noticed that passing current through a resistor produces heat. It is certain that we used electric heaters in old homes (in the bathroom, for shaving
), from there to equip them with electric heating there is a (big) step linked to the non-adaptation of electrical installations.
It is not a mystery that the quasi generalization of electric heating in the nine is contemporaneous with the decision to invest massively in nuclear power. No need to do 10 posts on the subject recalling the very cozy EDF ads and the record figures showing that the French have the pompom of the toaster on all floors.
It was direct producer-consumer and of course, the low equipment costs attracted developers very little threatened by the fuel poverty that would hit many of the occupants of the low cost (and therefore poorly insulated) housing they produced .
This must of course be put in the context of an era when the availability of energy galore was the starting point for all reasoning.
What is staggering is that the handful of decision-makers already mentioned had a right hand that did not know what the left hand was doing ... Indeed, they
together endowed France with a massive and rigid means of electrical production and created structurally fluctuating electrical consumption, seasonally and daily.
The result is that electric heating does not even benefit from the "carbon-free" electricity that everyone dreams of, but triggers the production of dirty electricity, at home or elsewhere. The figures for CO2 linked to electric heating can be manipulated at will, but for the 2000-2004 period ADEME and EDF had established 180 g of CO2 per kWh of electric heat. FYI with gas, it's 195 g. All that for this !!!
And the curious will no doubt find that the score has worsened with the liberalization of the electricity market which, for RTE, makes the current of lignite power plants so competitive ....
And to return to the subject ....
The Chinese will have charcoal cars, but that is the only way for them to be able to continue breathing in the city, regardless of their overall CO2 emissions.
And if we let it happen, we will have nuclear ... and Chinese cars.
sicetaitsimple wrote:In short, there is still room to support the development of EV… ..
The choice of switching to electric (in the conditions where we seem to want to do so) is an engaging option in the long term. It only remains to show that the nuclear industry is an option for the future ...
Michel
In terms of the future, it is not to foresee it, but to enable it (Antoine de Saint Exupery)