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Well, not entirely true, depending on what you're optimizing for. If it's cost, you need to see if gas bill savings + price difference of appliance < electric
by akamaka 17y ago
Well, not entirely true, depending on what you're optimizing for.
If it's cost, you need to see if gas bill savings + price difference of appliance < electric bill savings.
If you're optimizing for CO2 emissions, and live in France, with many nuclear plants, maybe using less electricity doesn't do much.
(I have ground source heating in my home, btw, and it's great for both!)
- fhars 17y agoBut in France the problem is that they built their houses according to the maxim "we have abundant cheap nuclear energy" to use marginal insulation and electric heaters, so these days they have to buy electricity produced in Germany's dirtiest coal power plants during winter... Here is a (German, sorry) text from last winter: http://www.sol.de/titelseite/topnews/Strom-EDF-Frankreich-Koelte-Winter-Heizung-freiren-ueberlastet-Stromnetze-in-Frankreich-wegen-Kaelte-ueberlastet;art26205,2840399 http://www.sol.de/titelseite/topnews/Strom-EDF-Frankreich-Ko... This winter may become even more problematic, since about a quarter of their nuclear power plants are down for maintenance. http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear-reaction/2009/11/frances_notsonuclear_winter.html http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear-reaction/2009/11/france... http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssUtilitiesElectric/idUSLU26856720091030 http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssUtilitiesElectric/idUSLU2...