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Very few places use electricity for heat. It’s super inefficient unless you use a heat pump, and residential heat pumps typically don’t work too far below freez
by maria2 4y ago
Very few places use electricity for heat. It’s super inefficient unless you use a heat pump, and residential heat pumps typically don’t work too far below freezing.
- vitaflo 4y agoMost furnaces require electricity to run even if the heat isn’t generated by electricity.
- xyzelement 4y agoExactly
- astura 4y agoVery few? Maybe for single family homes, but electric heat is very common in apartments - Every apartment I've ever lived in had electric baseboard heaters. Apparently it's #2 is the US with 37% of homes. https://www.climatecentral.org/news/your-heating-fuel-depends-on-where-you-live-18084 https://www.climatecentral.org/news/your-heating-fuel-depend... Now that I live in a single family house I use oil to heat the house - but the boiler requires electricity.
- Scoundreller 4y ago37% makes sense. When you live in a moderate climate and minimally need heating, low capex and high opex makes sense. Too bad so many air conditioners don’t have reversing valves. One day I want to install a window-shaker “the wrong way” and see how well it works as a heater. As an alternative, one could put water containers in their freezer and throw the ice outside as it freezes as a rudimentary sneakernet liquid<-> solid phase change heat pump.