Posted on 02/10/2025 11:21:25 AM PST by DallasBiff
As we step into the winter months, it’s time to consider your heating options. Whether your home is warmed with electric heat or a gas furnace, you want to know your family will be comfortable when the temperature drops.
Understanding your heating options, like electrification or a hybrid system, supports a comfortable home and manageable energy bill. To help you decide the best way to heat your home, we’ll explain the differences between electric and gas heat, and give a brief introduction to the hybrid dual fuel system.
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There are too many variables to answer the question. The cost of a btu of heat is a function of the cost of a btu of gas or electric heat in a specific location at a specific time.
Both are variable and either may be less expensive at the time.
Electric heat using electricity produced by gas turbines is beneficial of both simultaneously
Always wear underwear
Forgot to mention that he burned a hole in his PJ’s from the repeated proximity to the flame.
He needs to cut down on the bean burrito’s
That’s pretty.
We also have a functioning Glenwood Gold Medal combo wood/coal/gas stove in our kitchen.
It has four gas burners, four wood burner plates over the fire chamber, a lower wood fired oven and two upper gas fired ovens (a broiler on the right and a thermostat controlled oven on the left). The thermostat is a Robertshaw Automaticook - completely mechanical. It has a carbon rod inside an adjustable steel tube, so as the oven heats and cools, the tube lengthens and shortens relative to the carbon rod, closing or pushing open a spring-loaded gas valve.
I love these old things.
In the old days, even very utilitarian things were made to be beautiful.
Plus, by having a variable speed air handler too, my HVAC is almost always running, but in low power mode. Thus, any time my hybrid water heater runs (i.e. for 2 to 3 hours after my wife and I take our showers), the water heater produces a free cold air byproduct, which I duct to an intake of my HVAC (during the warm half of the year). Since my HVAC is almost always running, it picks up that free cold air and spreads it around the house, allowing my HVAC to stay in low power mode for longer times of the day.
That, combined with other energy efficiencies in the house like sealing gaps, adding insulation, allows me to hardly need the grid for about 8 months out of the year. In an all-electric house, and charging my EV for 16K miles per year (the home charged miles portion, not counting the other 10K miles we charged while away from home).
So-called "green energy" is stupid for the grid. But it pays to be smart about energy savings that you can take control of, not expecting lying, corrupt bureaucrats to do for you. IMHO, one of the hallmarks of true conservatism is the people figuring out ways to make themselves more self-reliant so that the govt has less ways to control us (by limiting our access to life's necessities, like energy).
That’s what they have in Greenland.. Heated floors. Heated towel racks even.
“What is the liberals hatred of natural gas?”
Because their women and feminized men are afraid of gas leak explosions. Using electricity to heat and cook is nuts. Plus it makes your house more of an electromagnetic hot zone. Heating with gas and oil is as organic as crunchy granola. Gas and oil are made from organic dead dinosaurs.
Gas if you want warm air.
And built to last forever.
One of my favorite retirement pastimes is to find old things and restore them to working order.. clocks, fans, typewriters, astronomical devices, musical instruments, cars, furniture, calculators, you name it..
I have a few modern things which I’ll concede are superior to their antique counterparts, but mostly, I find it’s the opposite - the antiques are superior.
“CO2 is a plant growth stimulant. The idea that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! because of CO2 emission is absurd, not supported by anything resembling real science.”
The climate crusaders call CO2 a pollutant. In an evil effort to lump it in with real air pollutants. Such as ozone, diesel engine smoke and soot, and the various nitric oxides. We used to dump industrial waste pollutants in our rivers. CO2 is not a pollutant.
You want real air pollution from coal. Go visit big cities in China. Other large 3rd world Asian cities have wicked air pollution from gasoline & diesel powered vehicles, scooters, motorcycles.
When we were building our house we looked into it and having the heated towel racks but couldn’t justify the $$$
Until my current place, I always lived where we had gas stoves and in some places gas heat. I was never afraid of gas.
But in recent years, I’ve seen three gas explosions that destroyed homes, and in one case killed people, within a mile or two of my own home.
I’m afraid of it now. Not because it’s gas, but because eople are not as careful and responsible of their work as they used to be. Quality of workmanship in many areas has gone downhill.
My grandmother had this exact waffle iron when I was a kid; decades later I was moving and got rid of it because I didn’t think it could be refurbished to be safe. I could kick myself now:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4vYAAOSwHIVnGWVI/s-l1600.webp
florida sunshine... 😎
I have a wonderful old Sunbeam toaster of that vintage - use it every day.
We used to have that waffle iron.. the Bakelite handles were broken beyond repair so I let it go.. but that was before the days of eBay.
If I’d kept it, I would probably find another one on eBay broken in a different way and use it for parts.
I don’t feel too bad though, since we never eat waffles.. ;-)
“You emit C02 when you breathe.”
If you freeze to death you don’t.
(which is the ultimate goal of the greenies)
You can certainly freeze to death above 32 degrees.
Proteolysis(decomposition) leads to the production of phenolic substances. Of that is Carbon Dioxide.
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