Posted on 06/08/2023 10:50:07 AM PDT by bitt
Now the Biden regime is willing to let you freeze to death to continue their radical “climate change” agenda.
The Regime will soon finalize new regulations severely restricting what furnaces you can buy for your home in the future and make new purchases more expensive. The rules were originally proposed back in June 2022 by the Department of Energy (DOE).
Here are the full details of the regulations courtesy of Fox News, which first broke the story. The rules could finalized at any point over the next several weeks.
Under the proposed regulations, DOE would require furnaces to achieve an annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) of 95% by 2029, meaning manufacturers would only be allowed to sell furnaces that convert at least 95% of fuel into heat within six years. The current market standard AFUE for a residential furnace is 80%.
The network explains this would take non-condensing gas furnaces off the market due to AFUE requirements. Consumers who replace their non-condensing furnaces with a condensing one would face potentially cost-prohibitive installation costs.
Richard Meyer, the vice president of energy markets, analysis and standards at the American Gas Association (AGA), called the rule “concerning.”
There are some really technical reasons why this is such a concerning rule. It has to do with the ability for consumers to be in compliance with this new efficiency standard.
They’re going to have to, in many cases, install new equipment to exhaust gas out of their home. These higher efficiency units, or so-called condensing units — a lot of consumers have them in their home, but a lot of consumers don’t. So, this rule would require additional retrofits for a lot of consumers. And those retrofits can be extremely cost prohibitive.
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I know. I’ve been saying the same damn thing for decades...
They will just use open flame to heat their home resulting in more fires and CO deaths. The Rats will chock that up as a win.
Wood stoves work.
Every time they try to conserve energy use, they end up creating more.
The water saver washers cause people to do more smaller loads of wash.
Water saver dishwashers will cause people to either run them twice or hand wash, which uses even more water and energy that automatic ones.
First of all......what the hecks’ a furnace? 😁
"Biden Regime Set to Ban OVER HALF of all Gas Furnaces and Change How Millions Heat Their Homes"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Biden is not the real problem imo.
The real problem is the very corrupt, political party-pirated Congress that is letting Biden Administration get away with stealing and exercising state powers to do all kinds of unconstitutional mischief.
The bottom line is that Democratic and Republican patriots need to to primary as many of our beloved state and federal lawmakers and executives in 2024 as we can.
After all, lawmakers and executives have once again shown that do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
Trump can endorse candidates that Constitution-savvy patriots recommend as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments after they win office.
Lignite.
“No mention of home heating oil furnaces which are common in the Northeast.”
Oil furnaces are dirty leading to early failure of condensing heat exchangers.
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Not sure this is that big of a deal. Most people replacing their furnace will buy a high efficiency unit anyway. They are about 20-25% more expensive, installation costs similar.
Basically it just exhausts at a lower temperature, typically just run PVC exhaust out the side of the house. I’m just glad they will still allow gas furnaces - in the Northeast a heat pump just doesn’t cut it.
Are you an HVAC professional?
I believe the problem is NOT Democrat Voters... but "DEMOCRAT VOTE HARVESTERS!"
From my experience, they don’t work worth crap here in Oklahoma. Our winters usually involve a few days to a few weeks of sub or near sub 0 lows, with highs in the single digit or lower teens. We lived in a home with a heat pump, and it was awful. Nothing beats a gas furnace.
Yup. They would be cleaning up the bodies by now.
So I decided to make our home as energy efficient as we feasibly could and produce as much of our own power as feasible. Since I live in the deep south, solar is a viable option. It worked as well as I hoped in my Phase I test for the year. So I did Phase II which was convert my two natural gas appliances to electric and expanded the solar to being as large as I originally wanted (but only after a year of trying it out with a smaller system).
Looking back in hindsight, I should have done the energy efficiencies to the house a long time ago, even if I never went solar and even if the Dims didn't have their war on energy. Part of me now being 80% energy independent is due to the fact that my two-story home doesn't need as much energy as it used to. Of course, the other part is the months of analysis on mine and my wife's energy consumption habits and what it'd take in solar throughput coming in, storage in home batteries, and DC-to-AC conversion throughput to meet most of our needs and wants (since being 100% energy independent would run against the law of diminishing returns).
It's similar to how my extended family who still lives out in the country does subsistence farming (where our prior generations did farming both for profit and subsistence). My cousins work hard to keep it up, But by growing over half the food they need they feel very comfortable not worrying as much about food price inflation and food shortages. That's pretty much where I am on energy: I replaced current and future sky high energy costs on less dependable energy (even in Alabama there was talk of brownouts over Christmas) with somewhat fixed costs to produce most of my own energy. Therefore, I worry less about power brownouts and future energy costs eroding my retirement savings.
“Are you an HVAC professional?”
An HVAC amateur.
Don’t forget toilets.. you gotta flush 2 or 3 times to make it all go away.
Hey Comrades! How do you like Bidenskyyyy’s Freedomless Utopia so far? Those rainbows and unicorns are somethin’ else aren’t they?
We heat with wood. Hot water and cooking with propane. Generator is dual fuel.
For one, they have no A/C and it gets hot sometimes. A heat pump can cool the house during the summer. A variable speed one can do it more efficiently. Then when cold weather comes the heat pump will at first carry the load in warming the home, again more efficiently than a standard heat pump as well as the gas furnace. But below freezing they'll need the gas furnace. Until spring comes and the weather gets above freezing, in which case their thermostat will use the variable speed heat pump to keep the house warm (more efficiently than a gas furnace).
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