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Gas boiler lobby trying to delay UK’s heat pump plans, leak shows (www.theguardian.com)

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This article is a month old, but similar things are happening in many European countries.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here in Germany, people usually use hydronic heating and it's probably gonna stay that way. However, people are waking up to the reality that A/C systems are becoming more relevant, so some people have started to install split A/Cs for heating and cooling. I think there are no subsidies for that though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

there are also recuperation systems, In Slovakia it's now mandatory in new houses AFAIK (mate just built a house).

I think water floor heating + invertable AC (aka bidirectional heat pump) are a good solution.

though you need to be aware of the added maintenance and cleaning cost of ACs.