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Nextgrid 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?

Resistive heating is still a big thing, including new products being developed.

Here's the latest: electric instant water heaters designed as drop-in replacements for gas boilers in hydronic heating systems: https://stromltd.com

All the inconveniences of a hydronic system and resistive electric in a single solution, what's not to like?

This is the perfect "slumlord special", installed in place of more economical (and ecological) solutions such as A/C knowing full well the tenant is going to pay the resulting astronomical bills.

Symbiote 4 months ago [–]

Is naming the company in Danish (strøm means power) supposed to suggest Scandinavian efficiency?

AFAIK resistive electrical heating is banned in Denmark, except in buildings for only occasional use (summer house etc).

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