Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "The Trouble With Heat Pumps" video.

  1.  @BenIsInSweden  He is just full of it and only wants your attention. ;-)
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  2. Look, Ma! FUD at its finest. ;-)
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  3. Let me give you some attention. You are begging so nicely. ;-)
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  4. Let me give you some attention. You are begging so nicely. ;-)
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  5. If you think that old buildings aren't suffering from that problem anyway, then you have never been in old buildings. They usually smell of mold because they are full of mold, with or without insulation.
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  6.  @Treblaine  That's basically every old building in Germany. I have been in some from as late as the 1970s that had mold smell all year long. Until such a building has been renovated and retrofitted these problems won't go away with any amount of ventilation. It has nothing to do with heat pumps. It's just poor construction during the (middle) ages (and beyond). Superinsulation is, of course, a bad idea. It is mostly being pushed by people who are trying to sell superinsulation. It's also completely unnecessary. One can build very nice homes with very low heating bills with very conventional building techniques and even retrofitting is usually not a big deal.
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  7.  @Treblaine Design by bureaucracy tends to go overboard with regulations. R-20 in all building is better than R-120 in a few buildings. That we don't have enough energy is simply not true. We are merely using it poorly. Our ancestors were living and freezing in unheated buildings. Those overcoats that you see on old paintings... those were not just for fashion. People needed them because the average indoors temperature in winter was maybe 5 degrees C. If you had 10 degrees C in your bedroom or above, then you were either lucky rich or you were sleeping next to the cow and the horse. Lung disease was common, with or without coal, coal just caused a different form of it than sleeping in the cold. Like you said, Germany is a really bad example for everything. They are doing everything in absolutes. "Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?" is the standard setting of the German soul. All or nothing, with little room for compromise. I wouldn't take that seriously. As long as people and countries are continuing to transition to renewable energy at this pace we will be all A-OK - in terms of energy consumption. The climate is probably a lost cause at this point. We can't CO2-save ourselves out of Noah's real flood, manmade version. We may be able to use some serious geo-engineering. Elon Musk now has a rocket that can take a lot of foil into orbit... and he will be able to launch it a hundred times a day. That will do it. The astronomers will, of course, get very spotty vision, but that's OK. Elon Musk's rocket can also launch all of their space observatories. ;-)
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  8. Awh, you are so cute when you are begging for attention with false statements. ;-)
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  9. The World population has basically stopped growing. All you are seeing now is replacement and increases in longevity.
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  10. You lost that bet, already. Everybody who is suffering from extreme weather events does, even if they may not know it what causes those to increase in frequency. ;-)
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  11. And yet, the heat pump market in Canada is almost $2 billion a year and growing rapidly. You may want to consider the possibility that you are full of it. ;-)
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  12. What makes you believe that the internet cares about your tantrums any more than your Mom did? ;-)
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  13. OK. Let me give you some attention, then. You are begging so nicely. ;-)
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  14. That sounds really scary, until you look up the real world data. The power consumption of the UK is falling. Efficiency gains are making the supply problem easier, not harder. If necessary, you can install local peaker plants, which will take care of the problem.
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