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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by beerandt on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:52PM (#26162848)
Schemes like that are generally how CO poisoning stories start. Or fires. A door gets cracked to run a hose through... etc.

Besides, at some point, you're just reinvinting an overly complicated combustion heater.

Which I already have, is already hardwired for fuel, and only needs to be plugged in.

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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by bluGill on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:43AM (#26168364)
Very much true. I didn't touch on safety which is a real issue.

That doesn't make the idea bad though. There have been attempts to do this in commercial furnaces before, but the details are hard, and ultimately of questionable value in general. In this particular situation it might be useful, but that is a lot of complexity for something that only makes sense for a week every 10 years.

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