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Low-carbon heating and cooling: overcoming one of world’s most important net zero challenges

25 Jun 2021

reduce emissions through increasing energy efficiency, Varied low-carbon solutions are available for heating and applying technology options to replace fossil fuel heating cooling in residential, commercial and industrial settings and cooling, and innovating in the storage and transport in all areas of the world. [...] Heating, cooling and climate change Heat and cold energy, (or thermal energy), District heating, whereby heat is generated Globally about provides heating and cooling for space, water, at a central point and piped into buildings, is 50% of heat cooking, industrial processes, air conditioning an exception, providing much of the heat for and refrigeration. [...] Climate change is expected to reduce the projected demand A low-carbon transition in heating and cooling for heating and increase demand for cooling5, requires innovation in new technologies and with some estimates forecasting that space infrastructure; investment to scale them up; and cooling will account for more global energy the transformation of millions of domestic and demand than space heat. [...] 4 CLIMATE CHANGE : SCIENCE AND SOLUTIONS LOW-CARBON HEATING AND COOLING A low-carbon variant on gas-fuelled heating Centralised heating and cooling being considered in some countries is to replace Low-carbon centralised or district heating In the UAE, district some or all of the natural gas in the network with for water and space, or cooling for space, is ‘green’ hydrogen, produced from renewable. [...] (See briefing 4: heating mainly continue the pattern of heating The role of hydrogen and ammonia in meeting and cooling being generated at the sites the net zero challenge) where it is consumed, research is rapidly expanding to consider possibilities where Biomass heat or cold is moved from where and when Biomass can be used for high-temperature it is created to where and when it is needed.

Authors

The Royal Society

Pages
12
Published in
United Kingdom