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Resilience of gas is important to consider as it eliminates the single point of failure, if your power goes out you still have a means of heat.
by newsclues 5y ago
Resilience of gas is important to consider as it eliminates the single point of failure, if your power goes out you still have a means of heat.
- vidarh 5y agoMany places the reliability of power is good enough that we're prepared to handle that by going to a hotel. It's been decades since I experienced more than a couple of minutes without power. Meanwhile I've had gas boilers fail twice and had to resort to electric heaters while waiting for repairs.
- newsclues 5y agoI live in Canada. Snow and ice storms are a reality that make self sufficiency highly desirable.
- vidarh 5y agoI grew up in Norway. Snow and storms were insufficient to give most people a reason to worry. Some homes will have a fireplace or wood fired stove as a last resort, but it's more and more rare. In rural areas having a fallback is slightly more common. So I stand by what I said: Many places the power reliability is high enough. A long outage in Norway would be treated as a major national emergency.
- fomine3 5y agoPortable cassette gas stove is pretty common here in Japan. This is the best for emergency. https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Iwatani-Cassette-feu-Master-Portable-CB-AS-1/dp/B008R7OOJ6 https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Iwatani-Cassette-feu-Master-Po...