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Different countries have very different storage capacities. Some nations have most of their years demand in storage capacity whereas others like the UK have only a few days and require a constant flow. If you are one of the countries that can store a whole year this is great news. If you're Britain, you could still be out of gas and paying exorbitant prices a week from now
Heh, how's Brexit working out for them? BTW has Nigel Farage paid for his lies?
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> We, too, have not switched on the gas based heating yet. Instead, we are using a mix of wood and infrared electrical heaters In the event that your electric power is derived from gas, you've shifted the burden elsewhere and actually increased overall gas consumption, since using gas to warm your home directly would be more efficient.
Not if the electric heaters aren't producing the same amount of heat. The comment suggested they've reduced heat consumption.
Is canabis legal in US ?
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> What was obviously completely underestimated was the elasticity of consumer demand for gas I don't think it was evident that individuals and businesses would be willing to make some of these changes they have. For example, German companies are planning on shutting down factories for the winter. Cities are planning on ending night lighting. In addition, winter so far has been fairly warm. It may still turn cold, so…
> In addition, winter so far has been fairly warm. It's Autumn. Winter starts on the 21st Dec. October in most of the Europe is not that much of a heating season, November will make us start digging into the gas we prepared. It's way too early for early to judge how easy it'll be.
21 December is Midwinter Solstice...
By orbital mechanics, winter starts around 10 November.
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Slovakia, we didn't start heating yet, a few years ago that would be unthinkable. Looking at the forecast, we won't be heating for at least another 10 days.
Which is good, isn't it? At least the energy crisis has been averted for the first month of the autumn season in Europe and the outlook looks promising going into the second month esp for households in light of rising costs and soaring inflation.
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> What was obviously completely underestimated was the elasticity of consumer demand for gas I don't think it was evident that individuals and businesses would be willing to make some of these changes they have. For example, German companies are planning on shutting down factories for the winter. Cities are planning on ending night lighting. In addition, winter so far has been fairly warm. It may still turn cold, so…
> In addition, winter so far has been fairly warm. It's Autumn. Winter starts on the 21st Dec. October in most of the Europe is not that much of a heating season, November will make us start digging into the gas we prepared. It's way too early for early to judge how easy it'll be.
Or on Nov 10, or on Dec 1 depending on how you count.
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> If someone had predicted Europe would have the LNG supply they do today at the beginning of the war they would have been dismissed as a utopist. Not really. It was always a matter of cost. Losing 30% of gas supply is no laughing matter - and the shock will naturally push governments to willingness to pay above premium prices to stabilize supply.
Europe can't just "pay above premium prices" to replace Russian gas. It would have been physically impossible to replace the Russian gas (and it still is physically impossible to fully replace Russian gas within 2022) without creating a tremendous amount of infrastructure around getting LNG, which European countries have been incredibly successful at doing so. The progress they've made in creating that infrastructure…
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Yes, but if the electricity is made from gas, then 300% efficiency of heat pump is better than 98% efficient heat furnace only if generation efficiency is at least 33%. Heat pumps are pretty great, but as of today, they are by no means necessarily more efficient than burning gas directly for heat, at least when it comes to GHG emissions. In fact, in very cold climates where air temperature is below freezing most of t…
> only if generation efficiency is at least 33%. the efficiency of a combined cycle gas generator is usually 50-60%.