Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances.
Not really. The problem isn’t that gas is somehow unreliable, it’s actually that gas doesn’t scale at all. It’s a massive expensive infrastructure change and it’s not flexible - you need gas. Electrical stoves can be powered by solar, wind, propane, etc; gas only works on gas.
In the last 15 years, my electricity has been out for 10+ DAYS three different times. Gas doesn’t stop.
In fact, 2 out of 3 homes in the neighborhood have Kohler style natural gas whole house generators.
There’s plenty of reasons to hate gas, but that ain’t one.
The reason you were down voted was in the first paragraph of the article - including breakdowns that can last for months at a time
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They should’ve run the electricity wires next to the gas wires, i.e. buried.
Surely someone’s got an example of natural gas service failing during an electric outage?
Not really. The problem isn’t that gas is somehow unreliable, it’s actually that gas doesn’t scale at all. It’s a massive expensive infrastructure change and it’s not flexible - you need gas. Electrical stoves can be powered by solar, wind, propane, etc; gas only works on gas.