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#LondonCalling: The Green Tech German Heat Pump divides the EU. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0

At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads.

0:07.4

That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour,

0:12.3

because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or

0:16.8

serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone.

0:24.8

Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters.

0:35.4

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:43.2

This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelor. Green Tech dominating the conversation in Europe,

0:50.4

in the European countries that are pledged to net zero or have made extravagant ambitions

0:56.4

for their population to leave fossil fuel behind and to consume less electricity and also spend

1:04.8

less money on energy and also maintain a responsible prosperous life. I welcome Joseph Sternberg,

1:13.6

the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London. He writes political economics.

1:18.9

And last year, Joe was good enough to acquaint me with something I never understood.

1:24.2

It's an entity you take into your home. It's called a heat pump, heat pump,

1:29.5

and there is some potential mandate in the UK from Parliament that all houses, all homes,

1:39.3

must convert to a heat pump. From what and why is a mystery to me, but now I run into it in Germany.

1:46.4

The headline in the financial times, Germany's boiler ban will have unintended consequences,

1:52.4

warrants industry, subhead, US and European companies say clause to end use of refrigerant gas,

1:58.8

violates EU single market. See everything's here for Joe, heat pump, EU single market,

2:05.4

and green tech. Joe, a very good evening to you. Before we get into the apparent heated German

2:12.6

debate over the heat pump, whether it's going to use HFOs, removing HFOs from its refrigerant and

2:20.1

replace it with natural refrigerant, what is a heat pump? And why is it being debated for German

2:26.5

homes and English homes? Good evening to you. Hey, John, so a heat pump is sort of like an

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