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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by ivalm on Saturday April 29, 2023 @06:43PM (#35757983)
We’ll muddle through. At any rate, the point is to focus on low hanging fruit —- target high emitters, an electric stove powered by a coal plant is worse than a natural gas stove.
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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by mburns on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:12PM (#35758203)
New York doesn’t have any coal plants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/nyregion/coal-energy-ny.h...

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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by quags on Sunday April 30, 2023 @05:21AM (#35760948)
NY does get some amount of power from out of state while it having any coal plants in the state but - edit - it seems to be less than 1%. Now I actually wonder why NJ has so much coal power compared to ny.
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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by joshuamorton on Saturday April 29, 2023 @10:52PM (#35759328)
This is actually probably untrue. Gas stoves produce a huge amount of waste heat (==extra fuel burned) that isn't produced by electric.
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