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Yeah, switch to electric; it’s not like it is expensive in California. Pass.
Electricity from wind and solar are already cheaper than gas in lots of places, and would be in more if not for fossil fuel industry subsidies. And it’s coming down quickly.
Cheap for the utility company to buy, maybe. But in California they charge $0.45-$0.75 per kW/h.
The thing about electric heating is that heat pumps can move several units of energy for each one they consume. So theyre far cheaper to operate than you would expect. They’re cheaper to run in mild climate even when electricity is 3x the cost per unit of energy.
Couple that with lower health care costs, and they’re very much worth having entire communities make the switch
Heat pumps are for low temperature processes only.
They can be combined to offload part of the heating
That’s exactly why electricity needs more investments: to reduce the cost of electricity. Now you know!
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As I said above:
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All of those links don’t load, except the one on arstechnica
Sounds like you’ve got some sort of insane local network block. They load fine for me
No, network loads fine.
Try disabling JavaScript.
Yeah. A lot of sites break when you do that.
Yeah, and we shouldn’t link to broken sites.
Infrastructure? More like into pockets of oil and gas billionaires. I doubt they invest anything more into the infrastructure than they absolutely have to. Bare minimum if that.
