NY plans to change the way you heat your home. Gas, oil, propane furnaces to be phased out

syracuse.com ^ | December 19, 2022 | Tim Knauss

[Paladin2]

Time to build some ovens.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

For existing homes, residents whose fossil fuel-burning heating units give out after 2030 will have to replace them with a zero-emission system.

Are they going to stop all trucks entering NYS to prevent smuggling of illegal furnaces and water heaters into NYS?

[Mean Daddy]

We went to the northeast back in October for a fall foliage drive for a week and I was amazed at how many fuel tanks we saw on the houses. The house I grew up in Omaha had one as we had a boiler with radiators but my folks switched to gas/electric furnace and AC before they sold the house in 1992. The house even had an old coal chute. Couldn’t tell you the last time I’ve seen one around Omaha.

[Skywise]

8 years to force every homeowner to buy a new furnace?!

Surely that has to be illegal under some constitutional right…

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Nah, with windmills and solar cells, power will be too cheap to meter. (snort)

[taxcontrol]

A common 2400 sq foot home that is not super insulated, would need about a 6 ton, perhaps a 7 ton unit. That would run about 7K to 10K. Just saying.

[Shady]

It will be close to 0° on Friday Night.. and in a blizzard. Let’s see how “hardened” the grid is..

[Mark17]

Idiots

That’s an understatement of Biblical proportions?

[ridesthemiles]

Watching Green Bay Packers game-—15/16 there.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“constitutional right”

My, aren’t you old-fashioned!

[P.O.E.]

I say to the folks who urge this - you first!

[blackdog]

Heat pumps give a spread in the two degree range, so the air being circulated as heat may only be two degrees warmer than the intake air being circulated. It will always feel cold.

That said, I always enjoyed ours. But we also had a wood burning fireplace stove insert that could give us the ambiance and intense heat warmth if wanted.

The best I ever had was a heat pump and a coal stove. The coal stove took only two ten pound buckets of coal in 24 hours. The ashes would go in the gardens after getting mixed into the compost pile. Coal burns really hot. We used to open windows if it got too warm.

[Mark17]

Are they going to stop all trucks entering NYS to prevent smuggling of illegal furnaces and water heaters into NYS?

Yep. They will say to the truckers, your papers please.

[IncPen]

This is not CoVid.

This one’s legit. Really.

[Mean Daddy]

We had one a heat pump at the last house we lived at and we had the furnace guy out for a routine check and he tagged our furnace as unsafe since the exchanger was damaged. This was right before a pretty cold week of weather. That heat bump kept our house at around 50 until the new furnace was installed. Wasn’t efficient at 20 degrees but it kept the house from freezing. Bought some space heaters and had a fireplace to supplement and keep it bearable.

[blackdog]

No. 8 years to force every homeowner onto electric utilities monopoly heat sources. Combustion furnaces are regulated out of use.

[LukeL]

Doesn’t electricity generate ozone? A known indoor air pollutant?

[FlingWingFlyer]

They’re going to teach New Yawkers how to stay warm by rubbing two nickels together.

[Mean Daddy]

In the Midwest you have both a heat pump & furnace. If it goes below 30, your heat is provided by the furnace & you’re right, the heat a heat pump puts out doesn’t warm you as much.

[Mark17]

Why not. It is already used to power the brains of those who made this decision.

No wonder they call them shiite for brains.