Re:Climate change: Curbing methane emissions will 'buy us time'
by stephen_g on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:03AM
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Electricity generation, residential (space heating, hot water heaters, cooktops), and as a feedstock for hydrogen, fertiliser, etc. production.
I'm in Australia, and we export most of the gas we produce - mostly for power stations in Japan and other places in the region I believe. We actually burn more gas to compress (liquefy) other gas for export than we use for electricity generation or in homes locally.
But yeah, it's really good to replace gas hot water, heating and cooking with heat pumps and induction stoves. Way more efficient and a good induction stove is just as good or better than gas (even though people who haven't used them will swear it can't be true). Heat pumps tend not to be able to fill your house with poisonous carbon monoxide (as can happen with gas heaters) or leak methane into your living space (which can be bad for a lot of reasons).
I'm in Australia, and we export most of the gas we produce - mostly for power stations in Japan and other places in the region I believe. We actually burn more gas to compress (liquefy) other gas for export than we use for electricity generation or in homes locally.
But yeah, it's really good to replace gas hot water, heating and cooking with heat pumps and induction stoves. Way more efficient and a good induction stove is just as good or better than gas (even though people who haven't used them will swear it can't be true). Heat pumps tend not to be able to fill your house with poisonous carbon monoxide (as can happen with gas heaters) or leak methane into your living space (which can be bad for a lot of reasons).