The Netherlands wants to get rid of gas and is therefore investing in heat networks and heat pumps. A very bad idea according to Arjen Lubach: it would cost a lot of money and be less environmentally friendly than natural gas. Milieu Centraal previously criticized the broadcast, now professor Jan Rotmans also states that the argument is incorrect. ‘Sunday with Lubach is in its own myth trap’, tweeted the professor of sustainable energy transitions at Erasmus University.
Rotmans has already published 200 articles on climate change, climate models and the energy transition. He explains, among other things, that heat pumps do indeed lead to natural gas savings and that it is expected that in ten years’ time 80 percent of all electricity will be generated in a sustainable manner, which will further increase the environmental benefit.
You can read more about it in the messages below (click for all twitter reports).
By popular request: the natural gas myth trap of Zondag met Lubach. First of all: I am a fan of the program and like a certain self-mockery and irony, I know from my own experience how difficult it can be to get off natural gas. We therefore face an enormous task
— Jan Rotmans (@janrotmans) November 10, 2020
We cannot wait until it becomes cheaper, as suggested in the program, because then we will not meet the climate target. Suppose it takes us 30 years, then we have to remove 1,500 existing homes PER DAY from natural gas. If we do that in 20 years, then 2000 per day
— Jan Rotmans (@janrotmans) November 10, 2020
Then the solution of the program: better insulation, especially from poor houses. That is true, but also a lame suggestion, because insulation is part of all solutions in all experiments and pilot projects. Insulating alone is not enough.
— Jan Rotmans (@janrotmans) November 10, 2020
It is therefore logical that people in Germany want to switch to natural gas, because it is cleaner & cheaper than oil & coal. Germany has mainly invested in green electricity through the energy turn, but hardly in sustainable heat, so they have an enormous heat task there
— Jan Rotmans (@janrotmans) November 10, 2020
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