lemming741 comments on New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program

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[–] lemming741@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

In the last 15 years, my electricity has been out for 10+ DAYS three different times. Gas doesn't stop.

In fact, 2 out of 3 homes in the neighborhood have Kohler style natural gas whole house generators.

There's plenty of reasons to hate gas, but that ain't one.

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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

They should've run the electricity wires next to the gas wires, i.e. buried.

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[–] prex@aussie.zone 1 point 10 months ago

The reason you were down voted was in the first paragraph of the article - including breakdowns that can last for months at a time

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[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

Surely someone's got an example of natural gas service failing during an electric outage?

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[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 1 point 10 months ago

Not really. The problem isn't that gas is somehow unreliable, it's actually that gas doesn't scale at all. It's a massive expensive infrastructure change and it's not flexible - you need gas. Electrical stoves can be powered by solar, wind, propane, etc; gas only works on gas.

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