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For new construction in Berkeley, you can't use natural gas. It was banned. Oh well, coal works. Unintended consequence?
by tropo 7y ago
For new construction in Berkeley, you can't use natural gas. It was banned. Oh well, coal works. Unintended consequence?
- CydeWeys 7y agoWhere would you get the coal though? An electric heat pump is gonna be way more cost efficient than burning coal. This is a coastal California climate we're taking about here, not Winnipeg.
- tropo 7y agoOne of the local businesses, right there in coastal California, is Koch Carbon. I like how the name is so honest and descriptive, despite not mentioning coal. You get carbon from the Koch brothers.
- fyfy18 7y agoElectric heat pumps work fine in cold climates down to -20C as well. Below that they switch to resistive heating, so if it only drops below that for a few days a year it's still cost effective.
- Gibbon1 7y agoBerkeley is the kind of place where your furnace shuts off sometime in March and doesn't come on again until October.
- freeone3000 7y agoNo, because new construction in Berkeley uses electric. Coal is too foul to want to use in your own house.
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- anthony_doan 7y agoNatural gas is ban so now they have to use coal. That's a weird logic statement. Coal is an option out of many options out there. Why are you so sure those new constructions in Berkeley will be using coal? Do you have any source of that? From my experiences, Northern California is very environmentally conscious so I don't think they'll ban natural gas just to replace it with coal.
- BurningFrog 7y agoNew construction in Berkeley is also for most practical purposes banned, so this is largely a hypothetical rule :)