Heating: a microwave boiler that works with existing radiators

The innovation of the day concerns heating.

To limit CO2 emissions, gas boilers will be banned from this summer on new homes.

Then gradually on the others.

We may have found an alternative: the microwave boiler.

Rather than heating the water with gas, we do as in your oven: we heat it with microwaves.

It is an idea of ​​the startup Heat Wayv.

She just presented the very first model.

Advantage: it is much less dangerous.

There is no risk of gas leakage or fire.

It hardly makes any noise, since there is no longer a flame which ignites.

And most importantly, it works with existing radiators.

What changes everything.

We just replace our current boiler with a new one.

While switching to the heat pump or all-electric, you have to completely redo your heating installation.

And what is the cost price?

After all, a microwave boiler is a boiler that runs on electricity.

According to the startup, the cost should remain similar, both for purchase and use.

But you are right, gas is much cheaper than electricity.

So this is a point that will have to be monitored with the first installations.

Do we know when it will be marketed?

In principle, at the end of the year.

First in the United Kingdom, one of the first countries to have programmed a total ban on gas boilers.

There, no more installations can take place after 2030. And the existing ones will all have to be removed by 2038.

In France, where 50% of heating is still done with gas, the government is hesitant.

For now, the ban only concerns new housing.

But that's the meaning of the story.

Alternatives to gas heating will have to be found.

As long as we do, the most transparent alternatives possible so as not to penalize renovations.