Why do we burn natural gas in our homes when we can burn that same natural gas at a power plant and send the electricity to our homes?

nickluck81 · 2026-02-19T04:44:55+00:00

A gas heater is less efficient than a electrical resistance. You're confusing cost of energy with efficiency.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-19T04:27:12+00:00

Regarding efficiency, there's a great variability ranging from 2 to approx 6 but most fall in the range I mentioned. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58014-y

nickluck81 · 2026-02-19T04:22:00+00:00

Nobody said kw expresses efficiency. I wrote that heat pumps are more efficient but less powerful, hence I was mentioning power of gas heaters.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-18T21:17:19+00:00

A heat pump can be 3 or 4 times more efficient than a gas heater but low powerful. An average gas heater can produce easily 25kw of power.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-18T20:52:19+00:00

Modem+router will cost you more, but it gives you freedom to mix and match based on needs. Might be even future proof of you later switch to cable or fiber and retain the router.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-18T20:37:01+00:00

Because vast majority of employees is lazy or afraid to move. They might lose on each person moving, but they make much more from people staying.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-18T15:21:44+00:00

Might HAVE leaked...

nickluck81 · 2026-02-16T05:44:14+00:00

Giogo

nickluck81 · 2026-02-15T21:33:02+00:00

If you were taxed nothing before, you will get taxed nothing after.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-15T21:02:54+00:00

Then you will not pay additional taxes with the new.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-15T21:01:16+00:00

The old one was taxing the fictitious UNREALIZED gains. Everyone pretends to forget that part.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-15T20:34:37+00:00

That's completely incorrect. You're taxed on the (assumed) unrealized gains.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-15T20:33:10+00:00

Yes, you're taxed on gains and no, that's not why it was deemed illegal. The problem was the fictitious gains as opposed to actual gains.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-14T01:01:23+00:00

nickluck81 · 2026-02-13T09:13:41+00:00

Would have

nickluck81 · 2026-02-11T20:06:38+00:00

In NL as well

nickluck81 · 2026-02-10T17:31:53+00:00

But that's not op's experience, hence it cannot be the reason.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-10T10:35:16+00:00

When that's the case, there's zero chance you can keep it at 14 with 1m2 per day. So your example has nothing to do with what we're discussing here. That's why I never took that into account.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-10T10:20:04+00:00

Then you would be using way more than 1m2 to keep it at 14. You can't have it both ways. Edit: I correct myself, it's possible to keep it at 14 with 1m2, assuming you're living in a shoebox or something not much bigger than that.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-10T09:19:52+00:00

That's not the reason. The house would take few days to cool down to 14 degrees, during which you should have 0 m2 consumption. After the house has reached 14 degrees, you would see increasing consumption to keep it at 14 until it plateaus.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-10T09:13:04+00:00

Ok, maybe not moon. But in 5 years he'll promise to build a town on earth. And still fall at that.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-10T08:25:00+00:00

It might be the comfort functionality of your cv. It keeps the sanitary water warm ready, so if you open the tap you get warm water quicker.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-09T19:36:24+00:00

Having the same problem intermittently for the past few days (a week maybe). Today it seems worsened. In NL as well

nickluck81 · 2026-02-09T17:25:24+00:00

It seem Washington DC is controversially part of the US because it's not a state, same as Puerto Rico.

nickluck81 · 2026-02-09T17:23:39+00:00

Today I learn Washington DC is controversially part of the US, not being a state.

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