While I am generally supportive of electrification efforts as a major tool in combating climate change, I am wary of having a single energy source to my house.<p>Particularly in light of the grid failures in Texas last winter. We would have been in big trouble without uninterrupted gas service. Running a small (1500 watt) generator to power the blower and control circuits, we were able to heat the house and cook without issue.<p>The redundancy was hugely important. Granted a rooftop solar+battery system would also suffice, but I'm wondering how long you can run a stove or furnace from those batteries.
My father in law, a quite intelligent person with a non-technical background, asked me a really good question re: electric appliances and vehicles.<p>He was holding off on getting an electric car, because he didn't understand how it could possibly be more efficient and cost-effective to use gas appliances in the home, but suddenly it's more efficient and cost-effective to use electric motors in cars.<p>Of course the problem is that generating heat with electricity is probably easiest done by spark-gapping to start a fire, and letting the fire generate heat, whereas generating motion with electromagnetism is quite easy compared to harnessing explosions to transfer to movement.<p>At any rate, I'd say let's replace cars first, then come after home appliances. They're relatively efficient at their job.
I'm very environmentally conscious but personally I'm gonna switch to an electric vehicle and heat pump before changing my stove to an electric one I think.<p>I will make sure to have proper ventilation when cooking though from now on, I wasn't aware of the health aspect of all the byproducts of cooking with gas.
Swapping a gas stove for an electric can easily cost double the price of the stove. Consider running a 30, 40, or possibly even 50 amp circuit and capping or removing the gas line. Neither of these tasks are ones that are ok to be done poorly.
I don't have a strong opinion either way, but it's great to see a study with accompanying data and reasonably human-readable documentation: <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707" rel="nofollow">https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707</a>
I appreciate that this is mathematically interesting, but from a practical standpoint, they should focus on “the emissions from gas stoves combined with an absence of fresh air inflow and poor exhaust outflow” if they want to see actual change.
Here's an excellent article about how our damning of cheap, reliable, "dirty" energy is going to push us into a crisis that dwarfs anything in recent memory. What happens when energy isn't cheap and isn't available?<p><a href="https://adventuresincapitalism.com/2021/09/29/will-esg-create-the-next-lehman-moment/" rel="nofollow">https://adventuresincapitalism.com/2021/09/29/will-esg-creat...</a>