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So you want people to use gas cars and gas-powered boilers to heat their home? Or should we make that more expensive as well so we can make sure more people spe

So you want people to use gas cars and gas-powered boilers to heat their home? Or should we make that more expensive as well so we can make sure more people spend more time with heating off in the winter?

astrange 6y ago
Isn't a gas-powered heater more efficient than an electric heater powered by an LNG plant? Electric heating is pretty ineffective, although heat pumps can work well.
- black6 6y ago
  Yes. No line/transmission loss; direct heating from combustion.
- tomsmeding 6y ago
  It might be, but it's also depleting a natural resource that refills _really_ slowly. Electricity at least can be (though is often not) generated from resources that do renew, like solar and wind energy.
  - astrange 6y ago
    It is, but this is one of the areas where synthetic fuels would be useful. Airplanes are another, since batteries are heavy and worse don’t get lighter as you use up the charge. Apparently there is some research in synthetic natural gas, which is an unfortunate name.