Not a lot of energy spent on heating, no. OTOH, the bill to run a residential air conditioner in the centre or the north is extreme.
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Yeah, but the centre is famously not just low density, but no density.
Whatever happens, the transfer to clean energy is not going to be done evenly and simultaneously. I can see an interim situation where rural areas take longer to convert over – or are abandoned temporarily or permanently when the costs become too high.
Europe was smart to convert over to electric trains etc way earlier. Now it’s more a case of just transitioning the source of that electricity.
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