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

[Vaduz]

Utopian ideas must come from people who eat spicy chili before bed time.

[mewzilla]

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=NY

For anyone interested.

Read it and weep.

[1Old Pro]

NY is already the lowest energy user state?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

That is brilliant! The New Yorker Map of America!

Thanks for taking the time to post that. A picture is worth a thousand words …

[mewzilla]

A bunch of homes just went up for sale in my neck of the woods today.

Coinkydink...?

[Tunehead54]

You’ll want to pull out your heavy jackets, gloves, caps and snow shovels. A lot of Global warming coming your way. Stay warm.

[palmer]

Thanks for all the interesting answers, particularly the venting. I was out of the loop for a while and just catching up. I wonder when some legit contractors will start to work for a legit appliance company and provide systems like yours. I suppose if you have enough money you can probably find someone to do it properly.

[mewzilla]

Looks like NYS is going to ban nat gas ranges, too...

https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2022/12/29/new-york-is-going-to-force-homeowners-to-convert-to-heat-pumps-how-much-do-they-cost/

Get a load of the last paragraph...

“...Some advocates hope that as technology becomes better and more easily produced that the cost will come down.”

Looks like the rest don’t give a ****.

[CFW]

I thought about this article over the Christmas weekend when so many people were suffering power outages. Can you imagine how many more people would have died if natural gas or heating oil had already been banned? These people are not stupid nor misguided. They realize their push for a ban on petroleum products, and a switch to all electric, will cause numerous deaths. And, they will gladly use those same products while banning the use by others. They don’t care. They are evil.

[mewzilla]

You’re right.

[dennisw]

Thanks!

[dennisw]

This is the Paloma Pack/on demand/ of whole house heating and hot water heating. What I see from skimming their website....

https://energykinetics.com/system2000-quietest-most-efficient-boiler/

[mewzilla]

Check this out. Guy wants the local board to rubber stamp anything coming out of Albany in terms of property code regs. No need to waste time voting! So efficient! What’s not to love, right?

https://cortlandvoice.com/2022/12/22/proposed-cortlandville-law-could-update-property-codes/

Interesting timing, though.

Are local governments all over NYS, the ones that haven’t already done it, planning to do this so they don’t have to vote on whether or not to comply with the nat gas ban on furnaces and ranges?

[mewzilla]

We know a few people who have installed heat pumps.

Most have already ripped them out.

The folks we know who still have them replace them 2x to 3x more often than we do our furnaces.

[mewzilla]

Was looking at this link and from today, saw a pic at the link of something that looks like part of an air source heat pump system...

How to clean damp walls to make mould and musty odours 'disappear' - using just two items

Then I ran across this gem from 2018. Was looking for info on why so many UK homes have mould (sic) issues. Look what I found...

'I had no idea,' heat pump owner says about potential for mould