logoalt Hacker News

tonymettoday at 4:20 PM1 replyview on HN

explain the cost to replace a hop drying kiln with an electrical one, including the grid load.


Replies

PaulDavisThe1sttoday at 5:11 PM

I'm not going to do that.

Electrical heat using heat pumps is cheaper than in-situ heating with any fossil fuel because (a) the base price per unit of energy is (or certainly can be) lower (b) the coefficient of performance is higher.

There are obviously costs to changing heating systems. But that doesn't mean that a gas heating system cannot be replaced by an electrical one.

show 1 reply