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WCDT strips 3956-3960 (11th to 15th March 2019)
Theta9:
Data point here: electric furnace and heat pump, in Carlton Oregon (near McMinnville, about 45 minutes from Portland by car).
This is my fifth residence in the greater PDX and I've only ever had one place that was piped for gas.
BenRG:
We're sort of lucky in the UK in that most population centres were piped for natural gas heating as a public infrastructure project in the late 1940s to early 1960s. The main motivation was to reduce the pollution from coke gas (which was the previous main form of heating and lighting fuel in the country). The carbon and sulphur particulate levels in the atmosphere over London in particular had long since passed the point where it was no longer safe to leave the house without a filter mask of some sort.
Then, on 5/16/1965 a gas explosion in London blew out the entire south-eastern corner of the 22-storey Ronan Point apartment building, killing five people and leaving hundreds homeless. Gas heating was subsequently outlawed in buildings over five stories tall. Because of this and the reliance on multi-storey structures for social housing in the UK, electric convection and storage heaters have become the national standard. We even have an electricity tariff offered by law called 'Economy 7' that reduces the cost of electricity overnight so that storage heaters do not become prohibitively expensive.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: Case on 11 Mar 2019, 05:12 ---Electric heating? Isn't that kind of ... expensive/wasteful? Or am I misunderstanding smth here?
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"Down here" in my part of Europe we have some older buildings also using electrical heating. Thing is: it's usually powered by "night electricity". My bathroom water heater is the same. reasoning: it's cheaper, but only available from midnight to 6am.
my heating itself is done through "Fernwärme", they run some kind of exhaust heat through half the city.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: DSL on 11 Mar 2019, 06:58 ---Yep, electric heat can cost you, compared to gas or hot-water.
However, to Brun I'd say: Some of what turned out to be my best decisions were made on the spur of the moment, or in an "Oh, what the hell" moment after a period of overthinking.
My current car and the one before that. My second-to-last apartment. Taking that job offer. Walking away from that job 25 years later.
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In my case, the "oh what the hell" job acceptance was followed by a better offer a few days after I already sent the acceptance... :psyduck:
brasca:
--- Quote from: Case on 11 Mar 2019, 05:12 ---Electric heating? Isn't that kind of ... expensive/wasteful? Or am I misunderstanding smth here?
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It’s what I had in my college apartment in Pennsylvania. It could be expensive in the winter so if you’re budget conscience you dress warmly and only heat your bedroom.
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