Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too | Opinion

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The significance of gas stoves for the climate becomes clearer in the context of the Biden administration’s goal of achieving net-zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Homes built today will endure far beyond Biden’s 2050 net-zero target.

And the longer the gas-is-better myth persists, the harder it will be to fully electrify new homes from the start. As I see it, if “cooking with gas” keeps us tethering new homes to natural gas grids for decades to come, our health, climate and wallets will pay the price.

 

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Burning NG at the point of use to produce heat is over 90% efficient. Burning NG in a power plant to produce steam to turn a turbine and make electricity and then transmit that electricity to a home where it is converted to heat is typically under 40% efficient.

As usual those fed the biglie from the tangerine king celebrity and his cronies who pay $$$ to keep them. If you're sick of hearing it well leave keep scrolling cause there are people who care about thos planet. So move on unless you're paid to troll

Are gas stoves better for the environment than coal powered electric stoves?

Is this another leftist professor spouting dribble to conform to the leftist agenda? Cow farts, gas stoves, the list goes on and on.

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