Posted on 12/17/2021 5:38:07 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The New York City Council on Wednesday voted to ban natural gas lines in new buildings as a way to combat so-called climate change. Outgoing Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to sign a bill into a law that will ban new gas stoves, boilers, and heaters.
“We’re making it clear that the next generation of buildings will be electric buildings,” Ben Furnas, de Blasio’s director of climate and sustainability, told Yahoo News. “We’re sending a message to the world that if you can do it here, you can do it anywhere.”
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“who wants to cook on an electric stove????”
I’ve been cooking with gas since the early 60’s.
I never use the oven, had my husband disconnect it. That takes too much gas in my opinion.
Natural gas is more efficient at heating than electric can ever be.
NYC City Council Bans Gas in New Buildings in the Name of Climate Change
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So my question is - What is the demand for constructing new buildings in NYC?
One cheap pipe can provide an entire building with gas for heat and cooking. A steam boiler heats entire building. Which of these idiot bureaucrats is an HVAC engineer, mechanical engineer, or electrical engineer? That will be fun in the winter when everyone gets to their apartments, turns on the heaters and starts to cook dinner.
Your physics processor failed you. The most efficient form of heat is and always will be heat pumps. They have a coefficient of performance that is positive for depending on the refrigerant gas from 2 to upwards of 8. This means for every kilowatt put into the system two to eight kilowatts of heat are delivered to the hot side heat sink. This is due to the second law of thermodynamics and irreversible phase change. Electric resistance heating can by definition never achieve greater than 1. Gas combustion is a first law process you lose right off the bat the HHV vs LHV of the fuel.Then you lose more across the heat exchanger due to the need to drive a thermal gradient. The end result is gas will NEVER EVER exceed a COP of .9 I don’t have time to undo what your physics prof failed to do right.
Google is your friend first look up heat pump COP and SEER ratings. Then look up Mitsubishi low temp inverter heat pumps that have COP above 2 for all temps above MINUS 5F thus ending the its too cold for heat pumps argument cold. The ground is also never far from 55 degrees anywhere in the Northern hemisphere below the.first line. Ground source heat pumps are the scientifically proven most efficient heat source in the planet.
With modern heat pumps using CO2 as the refrigerant gas you can have a positive COP down to.NEGATIVE 20F
The problem with heat pumps is the initial capital costs are much higher than a furnace but not so much more in climates where cooling via A.C.is needed then the heat pump does double.duty with the option of a high temp precondenser to draw 130+ degree hot water when in cooling mode giving hot water for free to the structure during the.cooling season.
Well, central park’s trees go first as they burn wood to heat their homes.
Can’t use a heat pump when there is no power. But I sure as hell can light my gas log fireplace with a match and heat at least 80% of my house.
Oh, and no gas hookup means no gas stove either.... Have fun cooking that soy burger over a candle during a power outage.
We have a 1933 vintage Servel natural gas refrigerator at work. It has no moving parts to wear out, and it works better than any of the latest, greatest refrigerators out there.
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