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Re:The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery by idiotsecant on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @05:57PM (#40663654)
There's lots of places in the US that don't have natural gas infrastructure and do all heating electrically. The UK has a much higher population density so services like natural gas are more widely available, I'd guess with no evidence to back that up.
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Re:The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery by londons_explore on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @06:42PM (#40663991)
In the UK, places without natural gas almost all use oil for heating instead.

A small chunk of buildings built in the 60's use electricity because we thought that would be cheap in a post-nuclear world. We were wrong.

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Re:The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery by idiotsecant on Thursday June 13, 2024 @08:19PM (#40676319)
In the US there are lots of places where electricity is fact quite cheap like that. For example, in my county heating with propane doesn't even come close to making sense, due to the excess of cheap hydro power.
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Re:The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery by c_o_n_v_e_x on Thursday June 13, 2024 @01:50AM (#40666331)
Quite a few people use LPG where nat gas isn’t available. Converting nat gas equipment to LPG is quick and simple.
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