I am glad I don't live anywhere near places that are prohibiting gas appliances
Gas furnace, stove, dryer and water heater are much nicer than the electric counterparts
Gas furnace, stove, dryer and water heater are much nicer than the electric counterparts
For heating and hot water, "remote heat" is infinitely cheaper, both in acquisition and maintenance costs, and infinitely more environmentally friendly than gas and electric heating.
Sure, if you live in a remote region or a third world country, then you get what you can get. But in any modern first world city, there is no quality in the solution space in which gas is better than the alternatives, and as a whole, gas is just substantially worse.
Gas blows induction out of the water for actual cooking, not just reheating stuff
Actually, most of the world population (>50%, ~4 billion people) lives in dense urban areas since ~2007: https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization
The current trend is expected to continue to increase.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/985183/size-urban-rural-...
As one guy put it, there are more Republicans living in Orange County than there are in the entire state of Mississippi.
I've never seen a stove bring 8 qt of water to boil so quickly.
I've used both and induction clearly comes out on top, by a huge margin.
As for home heating with gas: wrong again - heat pumps are the superior method, and come with the benefits of being air conditioners as well.
“WHERE DO HEAT PUMPS WORK BEST? Heat pumps are more common in milder climates, where the temperature does not typically drop below freezing. In colder regions, *they can also be combined with furnaces*for energy-efficient heating on all but the coldest days. When the temperature outside drops too low for the heat pump to operate effectively, the system will instead use the furnace to generate heat. This kind of system is often called a dual fuel system – it is very energy efficient and cost effective.”
https://www.carrier.com/residential/en/us/products/heat-pump...
There's also the alternative of putting the outlet of the heat pump below ground, where the temperature never gets that far below zero.
It's entirely incorrect to say that heat pumps only work in mild climates. I live in a country where we do not have a mild climate, and heat pumps are becoming more popular each day, owing to their technological superiority.
I'm also not a fan of using buttons and touch controls on something like this when cooking. It's distracting and cumbersome. Lowering temperature requires multiple button presses when gas just lets me turn a knob to instantly put it on low
“WHERE DO HEAT PUMPS WORK BEST?
Heat pumps are more common in milder climates, where the temperature does not typically drop below freezing. In colder regions, **they can also be combined with furnaces**for energy-efficient heating on all but the coldest days. When the temperature outside drops too low for the heat pump to operate effectively, the system will instead use the furnace to generate heat. This kind of system is often called a dual fuel system – it is very energy efficient and cost effective.”
https://www.carrier.com/residential/en/us/products/heat-pump...
Like for example, if you're going to go to the expense of laying gas pipes for those furnaces, why not lay a geothermal loop instead and use that to boost the heat pumps output?
And, like the "EVs don't work in the cold" claim, there's lots of experience outside the US of EVs and heat pumps working well in cold climates. You might need to insulate your house or stop actively subsidizing fossil fuels to make it happen in the early stages but it's totally doable.
Once I airseal some more and fix some of the leaky storms I expect it to never resort to resistive at all.
Heat pumps do work in cold climates.
If you have remote heat, you don’t need a heat pump.
Heat pumps are expensive, and hard to service and maintain (though they usually have a long lifetime). Some of them use pretty toxic chemicals that you don’t really want leaking.
> Spouting this sort of head-in-the-clouds, wrong information only weakens your cause.
The only thing you are showing is your ignorance everywhere.
That's impressive. The top-of-the-line Bosch induction cooktop, which retails for $2500 USD, tops out at 3.3kW on the largest plate. The rest are all most like 1.7-2.2 each.
A four burner range that could pull off 4.5kW per plate would probably require a 100A 240V circuit. Woof.
I have a similar model to that one, but can’t find mine (it’s a bit older). That one cost 140€ and has 3.5kW. Mine was cheaper (~100€) and has 4.5kW, which is insane.