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Re:New research: natural gas appliances emit much more metha... by stjohnswarts on Friday February 04, 2022 @05:28PM (#30214268)
What's different about it? Should we stop boiling water and return to salmonella and botulism?
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Re:New research: natural gas appliances emit much more metha... by chaxor on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:17PM (#30276087)
The difference is that there is far more wasted energy when using electric stoves vs a gas stove.

There are more carbon emissions from electric appliances over gas appliances because of the losses (entropy, etc) at each step.

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