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heating is a much better use for gas than generating electricity. And cooking is the noblest of all uses. I expect that when gas has become rare and expensive, people will be prepared to pay a premium to cook with it, just as i will be happy to buy diesel for my camper van in 20 years, at whatever the price is.

It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
by eurogreen on Sun Feb 5th, 2012 at 12:10:05 PM EST
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1 kWh of nat gas burned for heating equals 1 kWh of heat. The same amount of gas burnt in a combined cycle turbine gives you 0.4 kWh of power, which when feed into a heat pump gives you about 1.5 kWh of heat. Burning gas for heat is just such a waste of a noble commodity.

If I made the laws, gas wouldn't even be burnt for power, but would be used exclusively as a motor fuel and chemical feedstock.


Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Sun Feb 5th, 2012 at 01:18:04 PM EST
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