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I just replaced this one in December, but even the 15 year old one before that didn’t need the coils until it got well below freezing.

I don’t know the specific model but it’s the base model the sales guy pitched me. No fancy two-stage stuff.

Most people - myself included - don’t have a generator or even space for one.

And this isn’t banning gas outright. It’s just increasing the hookup fee. So if you still feel you need gas for whatever reason you can get it, you just gotta pay for it.

Converting gas to electricity has losses, but the 300-400% efficiency of heat pumps more than makes up for it. Also, resistive heat is 100% efficient, while natural gas furnaces are only 90-95% efficient. So even resistive heat would be more efficient.

As for demand, that needs to be solved at a grid level. Though I haven’t had my heat strips turn on all winter.

Seems like a bad policy. New York gets cold enough that a heat pump needs a low temp heat source. Heat strips can provide that, but gas does it better.

I live in PA, which isn’t that much colder than NY, and I have a heat pump that is rated to keep my house at 70 degrees when it’s zero outside. Then it might need the heat strips, but since they’re powerful enough to do the same thing on their own.

The best use for natural gas at this point is to be burned in turbine power plants to stabilize the grid. That way they’ll power heat pumps which are 3-4x more efficient than burning it in a furnace.

To be fair I love my 2014 GTI and will probably drive it forever even if I get another car because it’s just so damn fun.

I just bought a dryer and it had a piece of paper taped to it that said “By using this appliance you agree to have all disputes handled by third-party arbitration by the party of our choice.”

For a fucking dryer.

I’m going to be driving my cars from 2016 and 2014 forever, aren’t I?

Glad to hear it. Nothing better after a night of drinking than a big, greasy, floppy slice handed to you from what sounds like the pits of hell.

Nuclear winter cancelling out global warming

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I’d still prefer this to one made of thin metal with one of the tines slightly bent

Farenheit is better because 69 is a nice temperature

If I had that ability I would probably die in my chair muttering “Just one more turn…”

I mean, planes already inject, release, or disperse a lot of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances into the atmosphere, namely CO2 and water, which is why there are contrails.

Did Tennessee just ban airplanes?

Of course the change wouldn’t be immediate, and wouldn’t completely devalue homes across the country. However, people who were planning on their house going up 50% in value but only see it go up 30% in value won’t feel too good about that.

This isn’t so much about the fairness of the policy, but the politics. Existing homeowners have a lot of power at the local level, and are usually politically involved. If these people feel short-changed they won’t have happy feelings for the party that got it passed. But I guess that’s why they’re called “reactionaries.”

Something like “You’re free to homeschool your kid.” Especially because assholes against this love unmonitored homeschooling

This is one of the corners we’ve painted ourselves into. Housing is too expensive, but it’s also the nest-eggs for a lot of people. So we either keep the price of housing high and people can’t afford it, or we lower the price of housing and a lot of ordinary folks who did what they were told was good will lose out.

Is Death Metal Pizza still there?

Everyone in that state will ignore phone calls for the next eight months