Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars

Re:Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars by smileysteve on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:33PM (#30103417)

To add confusion; induction is drastically more efficient than resistance heating; heat pumps are drastically more efficient than gas or traditional heat.

So the communication problem is also one of changing technology. Technologies that adults learned 30 years ago are not the same as those today.

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Re:Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars by mikewarot on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:48PM (#30105404)

Resistance heating is 100% efficient, how can inductive heating be more efficient than that?

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Re:Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars by 8note on Thursday January 27, 2022 @03:52PM (#30106479)

Resistance heating is 100% efficient at heating the element, but to heat the pan, it has to transfer through the pan/element interface.

100% isn't the highest efficiency you can get though. It's even more efficient to use the electrical energy to concentrate existing heat than it is to create new heat

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Re:Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars by TheCoelacanth on Thursday January 27, 2022 @07:58PM (#30109400)

Resistance heating is 100% efficient at heating the world. Considerably less efficient at heating the one specific pot you are trying to heat.

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Re:Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars by rdtwo on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:04PM (#30106666)

Outside is a really large heat sink. So you can dump unwanted heat or cold outside to heat out cool your house using a heat pump.

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