>>1497599>What do you all think of Soviet era heat-electric cogen power plants?Like everythig soviet, I totally dig it in theory, but in reality, it's probably an unreliable, polluting shitshow. (pic kinda related. It's also great IRL)
But besides that, if you're generating power close to the city anyways, it absolutely makes sense to not waste the heat and I'd guess in total it's actually better for air quality, compared to thousands and thousands of small, oil, gas wood and coal fired heaters in the various houses.
Problem is just, if that thing fails, you're cold. And you can't ask your neighbor to stay it his place for a few hours until you heater is fixed and you also can't go to the hotels next door if it takes a few days, because they're all cold also.
How often does that happen in Russia?
I remember when I was studying on Svalbard for a few month, they had plans in place to evacuate the whole island, if the power plant fails in winter and they can't fix it within a few hours.
