Yes, natural gas is being banned. California has gone crazy.
Inductive cooktops are pretty good - I’ve grown to prefer it over gas.
Inductive cooktops are pretty good - I’ve grown to prefer it over gas.
One neat thing at my girlfriend’s place was that there was an inductive circle with two possible diameters of heat which seems neat for a gigantic stock pot.
But switching quickly between heats seems like it’d require you to have two “burners” going at once.
At the end of the day I’m not sure if it’d really affect my cooking which I love to do but probably isn’t three Michelin stars or anything, but it’s the first I’ve heard of a preference for electric.
Remember when doctors used to smoke during your exam? That’s how future generations are going to look back at our fossil fuel use.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/11/10/climate-chang...
Natural gas is used quite a bit for cooking and home heating, and we need to phase it out where ever possible.
Which means it's only an emissions win if the electricity is carbon neutral or the multiplier for a heat pump compensates for the generation/transmission losses.
However, the city regulators, like I said above, are stupid, so you often can't get a permit for a heat pump, because of noise ordinances. These things sound like an A/C compressor, so you can only install it if there is enough distance to your neighbors, and that's usually not possible in newer, denser developments, precisely the kinds where natural gas is banned, so you are now forced to use resitive heating, which uses 3-4x as much power as a heat pump, and costs more than 3x as much, due to our tiered electric prices (additional units cost more than early units)