I wonder if this is actually related to wanting to reduce gas use for “national security” reasons, since they are going to export the gas instead to Europe as a replacement for the pipeline they blew up.
I doubt it. Gas stoves are a tiny drop compared to gas heating and power generation.
Though the gas industry does fund lots of ads for gas stove, to get people to get gas in their homes, so they use it for heating. So maybe the gov is trying to do an UNO reverse, and ban new gas stoves as a way to try to get fewer houses to have gas heating?
I dunno, I feel like I've been seeing stuff for like a decade about how bad gas stoves are for air quality, so as jaded as I am, I'm inclined to take the ban mostly at face value.
Yes burning gas at home directly is more efficient than in the power plant. But stoves tend to last a long time and renewable energy is increasing quite a bit this year.
Yes burning gas at home directly is more efficient than in the power plant.
I'm not convinced this is truly the case (in terms of aggregate efficiency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56DSH8tKUvo )
You think the efficiency at a typical natural gas generator is as low as 40%?
You don't fix this by banning stoves, you fix it by mandating proper ventilation in homes
might work if we could consistently and swiftly enforce regulations on landlords.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is already mandated in the building codes
I hope this would only apply to domestic households. This cannot possibly work for the restaurant industry. I would rather light myself on fire than cook a Saturday night dinner rush on fucking Fisher Price electric stovetops :agony-consuming:
Have you tried a modern induction with temperature control? They can put 2000 watts into a pan to boil water in a minute, or keep butter just below 150 F, or keep a pan just below the smoke point of your oil.
Aircraft carrier group emits more co2 than Burundi i sleep
You boil a pot of water with gas in your house real shit
Roundup on all my produce I sleep
Firearms all over my neighborhood I sleep
Covid spreading completely unchecked I sleep
I get that every little bit helps but this feels a touch nanny-stateish
It might feel that way, but it's likely an attempt to push developers to stop connecting new houses up to gas lines. It's less efficient and this kind of winding down of natural gas as an energy source should have started in the 70s:(
That’s a good point, I’m fortunate not to live in McMansion hell but remembering how quickly suburbs spread in southern cities gives a different perspective.
But if this is the case they need to do fireplaces and water heaters too
Indeed! It makes me so sad knowing what marvels of infrastructure we could be building (e.g., massive city scale underground water reservoirs for both backup potable water and geothermal heat pumping is probably affordable if we sacrifice construction of a single 100 million dollar state subsidized prison, but then we couldn't enslave our drug users:( )
