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RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago

Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves

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Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves

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RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago
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A poll finds less than one-third of Americans want a fully electric home. It jumps to 60 percent if people can continue cooking with gas.
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    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437

    Electrifying everything but the gas stove means keeping the entire gas distribution system, which leaks like a sieve.

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      Well why are they building them out of sieves?

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        The article I linked is about methane but, as someone who is on propane, I can pretty much guarantee it’s not much better. I don’t know if you’ve ever been around a propane fill-up, but the connection/disconnect process breaks of the odorant - it definitely has a loss on every transfer.

        The only good news is the emissions factor for propane is much lower than methane

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