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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 11 months ago

Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves

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Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 11 months ago

A poll finds less than one-third of Americans want a fully electric home. It jumps to 60 percent if people can continue cooking with gas.

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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437

Electrifying everything but the gas stove means keeping the entire gas distribution system, which leaks like a sieve.
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  Well why are they building them out of sieves?

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