Great work, glad they speed up pipes from Norway to Poland.
It’s crazy how much gas can be saved by just turning down the thermostat in an older house.
I saved approximately 60%, from 140 cubic meters per month in February to 50 in March.
Correcting for the weather that would have been about 115 cubic meters in March. Behavioural changes saved those extra 65 cubic meters.
And I already consumed a relatively low amount of gas. The average dutch person with my type of house consumed 177 cubic meters in March 2022.
And this is with working from home and all hot water from gas. My insulation is slightly better than average.
Edit: so what I did was warm my living room to about 18 degrees on colder days and keeping the bedrooms around 15 degrees. Warmer days, we bit the bullet in the morning and kept the heating off and let the sun warm the house.
Right before bed I would warm the bedrooms to 18 degrees.
Most days, the heating would be on for less than an hour. Half an hour in the morning, half an hour at night.
On really cold days, the heating would be on maybe 4-6 hours to keep the house above 17 degrees during the day and 15 at night.
I used to run 21 degrees during the day, 17 degrees at night.
We should add nuclear to the mix. Algeria is not quite a temple of stability, and other energy rich countries are quite repressive which can blow up at any moment.
If only Russia didn’t do this.
Meanwhile, in Germany…
>”The pipeline was stopped because of a lack of permissions concerning the protection of nature and rare species,” Trine Villumsen Berling, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, told AFP.
Before war: ‘but … think of mice!’
Now: ‘f*** mice’
Hi guys
There is no proper pipeline between the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe because France didn’t want it, hence why the LNG facilities in Portugal and Spain (which are easilly the closest places to unload liquified natural gas from the US and Africa), as well as Spain’s gas connection to the gas fields in North Africa is of little use to the rest of Europe.
It wasn’t just “mutti” in Germany that cemented Europe’s dependence on Russian gas.
We should connect Spain and France. The better the connections, the more options we have.
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Great work, glad they speed up pipes from Norway to Poland.
It’s crazy how much gas can be saved by just turning down the thermostat in an older house.
I saved approximately 60%, from 140 cubic meters per month in February to 50 in March.
Correcting for the weather that would have been about 115 cubic meters in March. Behavioural changes saved those extra 65 cubic meters.
And I already consumed a relatively low amount of gas. The average dutch person with my type of house consumed 177 cubic meters in March 2022.
And this is with working from home and all hot water from gas. My insulation is slightly better than average.
Edit: so what I did was warm my living room to about 18 degrees on colder days and keeping the bedrooms around 15 degrees. Warmer days, we bit the bullet in the morning and kept the heating off and let the sun warm the house.
Right before bed I would warm the bedrooms to 18 degrees.
Most days, the heating would be on for less than an hour. Half an hour in the morning, half an hour at night.
On really cold days, the heating would be on maybe 4-6 hours to keep the house above 17 degrees during the day and 15 at night.
I used to run 21 degrees during the day, 17 degrees at night.
We should add nuclear to the mix. Algeria is not quite a temple of stability, and other energy rich countries are quite repressive which can blow up at any moment.
If only Russia didn’t do this.
Meanwhile, in Germany…
>”The pipeline was stopped because of a lack of permissions concerning the protection of nature and rare species,” Trine Villumsen Berling, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, told AFP.
Before war: ‘but … think of mice!’
Now: ‘f*** mice’
Hi guys
There is no proper pipeline between the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe because France didn’t want it, hence why the LNG facilities in Portugal and Spain (which are easilly the closest places to unload liquified natural gas from the US and Africa), as well as Spain’s gas connection to the gas fields in North Africa is of little use to the rest of Europe.
It wasn’t just “mutti” in Germany that cemented Europe’s dependence on Russian gas.
We should connect Spain and France. The better the connections, the more options we have.