It’s Time To Break Up With Our Gas Stoves | Climate Town

Recently I've had an experience with a minor gas leak that's left me afraid to even use my furnace. I have a gas furnace, and I live in a rental. The furnace works, but for the first hour of it being on I can smell gas. It's enough that a carbon monoxide detector will go off nearby. One day I told my partner that I've been feeling super groggy and cloudy-headed for a few months, and we narrowed down the time frame to when I moved into my place. Sure enough, I switch to using a small space heater and two weeks in I'm feeling better than ever before. I 100% attribute the fogginess in my brain to the gas leak. It wasn't enough to cause an explosion, but it doesn't take much to cause serious health problems. Here's a great video on the topic by Climate Town, an awesome educator on climate change: [this video]

The big problem with piping natural gas to buildings is that the miles of pipes that deliver the gas leak. Gas leaking is a real issue since an equal amount of un-burnt methane has 25x the climate change potential as CO2. Even if the power plants supplying electric heat pumps/radiators is natural gas, the shorter supply chain (only to power plant and not to every building in the city) go some way to offsetting extra emissions. Then you have the obvious benefit that once the NYC grid transitions to renewables there won't be as many natural gas ovens and heaters that need to be replaced. The commenters pointing out that natural gas stoves don't have a significant effect on emissions are right, but once a building gets a gas hookup installing natural gas heaters and water heaters becomes more attractive and economical. That's something we don't want to be incentivizing Climate town recently released a new video talking about this issue as well as the decades of marketing and lobbying the natural gas industry has paid for to neuter or outright kill legislation like this. [this video]

I would be all for moving off gas-stoves, but can we acknowledge that the alternatives really suck if you like cooking ? I want to be part of the solution, so here are few things that alternatives need to figure out before I move off gas: Easy problems : 1. No more cycling-induction/electric stoves. I do not want my food alternating between burning & sitting around. 2. A power setting where low-to-medium aren't only kind of burning your food. 3. Off means off. I don't want my food cooking for 5 more minutes after I turn the stove off. 4. Kitchen ranges having high quality broilers to make up for the lack of a charring mechanism on alternative ranges. Hard problems : 1. Being able to change the shape of the surface element to trace the shape of the pan. I cook with a wok, and all non-gas-ranges only heat the very center. If I can use a wok to fix the shape of the coil into a bowl, then I can ensure even heating even in a wok. (It's a spring coil, the shape should be mechanically adjustable). 2. Can the good ones be competitive on prices with top gas ranges ? I really dislike electric stoves, they have the worst of all worlds. Induction stoves: I could live with, but the good ones are too expensive to be a reasonable alternative for most people. There are additional good reasons to switch as seen from this[1] video. [1] [this video] ______________ Final caveat for tropical countries. Here, windows are always open. Houses often lack a gas connection, and instead have a gas-cylinder s

I switched to induction holy shit it's so much better! if you have compatible cookware, definitely try it out, you can get an external induction cooktop from Ikea for like $60. if you don't, get some and switch because the cooking process is so much more enjoyable. you know how when you're sauteing something and you wanna get a good sniff because it's smells amazing, only to get your eyebrows singed and a lungfull of half combusted propane? with induction, you get nothing but the smell of your food, without the excess wasted heat. also, it's fast on the big eye I can boil water insanely fast, I honestly didn't know it was possible to boil water that fast. and I can say this all only as a happy customer who paid my own money, not as a paid advertisement, UNLIKE the gas industry which has been pushing this shit through influencers and marketing for decades. [1] [1] [this video] [Climate Town - It's Time to Break Up with Our Gas Stoves 21:27]

It isn't completely irrelevant; they didn't mention wild birds, or any wider context - the way they commented was as a shock number, the intent of that is "wind turbines kill $bignum, stop wind turbines". The relevance of the much bigger shock number is to put it in context - human activity slaughters a lot of animals. Okay, something else which affects wild birds: " Bird corpses were counted - and, where possible, identified - at 166 locations throughout Britain during the summer of 1985. The survey covered all roads except motorways. It is the most recent such study, and the most comprehensive. The results were depressing. A minimum of 30 million birds are killed on Britain's roads every year. Depending on the assumptions made in the statistical analysis, the death rate could be even higher: 70 million a year is not impossible. "[1] And that's as well as wild rabbits, hedgehogs, badgers, foxes, deer, and so on killed by cars which wind turbines don't affect. So the wildlife in the UK would be much better off if we built more viable alternatives to driving and road trucking than if we scrapped wind turbines. We can also note that people are working on wind turbines that don't kill birds, e.g. [2]. It's not a fixed fact that all wind turbine designs do the same damage. In the context of a world where fossil fuel propaganda really does exist[3] and Trump's recent executive order on unleashing energy generation where he tells government departments to look for all kinds of ener