Remember this one? I had a good friend who lived there. Operative word is "lived"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Br...line_explosion
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Remember this one? I had a good friend who lived there. Operative word is "lived"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Br...line_explosion
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I was discussing this with a friend who seems to keep up with such things. He said that like the Graduate movie where the old guy whispers "plastics", the modern version would be "heat pumps". I had to do a little self educating, but with our cold winters I'd anticipate my heating costs would be huge if I had to heat with baseboard electric and didn't have solar panels.
And of course if we're mapping out hypothetical risks of being without electricity, there is the earthquake risk of gas for anyone in earthquake country. You are supposed to turn it off in an earthquake because of the fire risk.
Trees don't grow on money
I use electric baseboard heat along with my wood stove in the winter, and even though I'm burning wood, my electricity/heating costs due to the baseboard heat are double in my 700 sq ft home than they were in my 2000 sq. ft home with an energy-efficient furnace/natural gas heat.
For that reason, I am getting a heat pump in September (first available time--the HVAC guy is swamped all summer installing them). I anticipate electricity costs to go down considerably, and I am still trying to figure out how to implement solar as well. But that's difficult because I can't do roof-top unless I cut down trees, which of course I refuse to do. I may buy into a solar farm, but I'm against those in principle, too, if they're built over arable land, or the land has been deforested to build the farm.
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
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we are putting a heat pump in our newly constructed sun room. I remain skeptical about it because I remember the failures of those units 30 years ago.
As for invection cooktops, I am not attracted to those newfangled things. I love my retro microwave oven that uses a knobs to turn for setting minutes, I do not have to punch digital buttons.
Our electric baseboard heating cost 500/month in January 10 years ago in a 1400 sq ft house. After getting that bill when we went to bed we turned off the heat in every room but our bedroom when we went to bed. It was always really cold in the morning but lowered the bill by half.
That reminds me of this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukush...er?wprov=sfti1
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