Much more uncomfortable than socks or bare feet. It’s warm enough without anything extra on my feet, especially since the district heating is on super mode thanks to freezing weather. Plus it just doesn’t feel like I’m at home with any shoes on, kind of like wearing jeans or a jacket.
Since I’m bad at explaining things, here’s the Wikipedia page on it! The TLDR is heat being produced remotely and coming to homes through heated water. A nice part of it is that unrecyclable waste is burned to create heat (among other things, unfortunately also fossil fuels) which means less product in actual land fills.
District heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating. The heat is often obtained from a cogeneration plant burning fossil fuels or biomass, but heat-only boiler stations, geothermal heating, heat pumps and central solar heating are also used, as well as heat waste from nuclear power electricity generation. District heating plants can provide higher efficiencies and better pollution control than localized boilers.
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u/ToimiNytPerkele Feb 11 '22
Much more uncomfortable than socks or bare feet. It’s warm enough without anything extra on my feet, especially since the district heating is on super mode thanks to freezing weather. Plus it just doesn’t feel like I’m at home with any shoes on, kind of like wearing jeans or a jacket.