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Great system. The advantage of running gas to homes is to avoid the single point of failure in the event either the gas or electric delivery fails. Also, crea
by fwungy 4y ago
Great system.
The advantage of running gas to homes is to avoid the single point of failure in the event either the gas or electric delivery fails.
Also, creating heat from electricity requires either a) massive amounts of sustainable energy b) nuclear or c) burning fossil fuels to create electricity, then sending it down the wire to become heat again. Under any condition except b), is massively inefficient. Trying to run a ton of electric heat off green power sources in a deep freeze would be a disaster.
- pmontra 4y ago> The advantage of running gas to homes is to avoid the single point of failure I had a 10 minutes blackout today and my gas boiler heating radiators in all my house went off. I think that I'd need a UPS for the boiler if I don't want main power to be a single point of failure.
- fwungy 4y agoIf you have gas and heat running to your home you will have one if the other fails. We just had a 24 hour blackout at my house. The fact that we had gas allowed us to remain in the home with hot water, stove and heat without too much inconvenience. One day without that wouldn't have been terrible, but other people nearby lost their electricity for days, which would be very hard without gas.
- pmontra 4y agoMy point is that I would have no heat. I could cook and have some hot water because I could warm it up in a pot.