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It seems crazy to be building new houses with natural gas. I would think with people staring down the barrel of $5 petrol, it would feel more like fossil fuel'
by linsomniac 4y ago
It seems crazy to be building new houses with natural gas. I would think with people staring down the barrel of $5 petrol, it would feel more like fossil fuel's days are numbered. Building efficiency and high efficiency heat pumps (for HVAC and water) make electric look pretty compelling.
Building a new house targeted at today seems really shortsighted. I'm in a 50 year old house, I can see why you'd build a new house looking to the future where gas isn't a thing.
- denimnerd42 4y agoit’s fine to plan to be in all electric future. but a 50 year old house would have had its hot water water heater replaced a few times. there’s no reason one can’t go there when it makes sense.
- linsomniac 4y agoPossibly, as long as accommodations are made... For me to add electric hot water to my house would be ~$5-7K, and has the additional issue that my hot water heater is not really in a place that a heat pump hot water heater would work so it'd likely have to be relocated. But, the electric future is much, much closer than 50 years, probably even closer than a hot water heater replacement.