lemm.ee

1 point

9 days ago

Heat is actually the big one here; it’s a big chunk of emissions.

Getting rid of gas heat makes the gas stoves uneconomic.

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deegeese@sopuli.xyz

0 points

9 days ago

If you want to ban gas for residential heating because heat pumps are better, why are you banning it for comercial cooking which is a much smaller source of emissions, and lacks a good electrical replacement?

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2 points

9 days ago

Three reasons:

Without the use for space heating, very little gas will be distributed, making the distribution system totally uneconomic for small users.
The distribution system leaks methane. It’s ~3% of what goes through it when there is high usage, but the amount of leakage probably doesn’t go down unless you start decommissioning it.
You want to protect the workers who have to breathe the fumes

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deegeese@sopuli.xyz

2 points

9 days ago

Heating is irrelevant for commercial kitchen gas usage.

You’re just trying to yoke this terrible idea to a more sensible one for residential heating.

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3 points

9 days ago

No, it’s relevant for the cost of distributing the gas. It’s not cost-effective to run a gas distribution system just to commercial kitchens without the much larger distribution going to heating.

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deegeese@sopuli.xyz

0 points

9 days ago

If that’s right, you don’t need to ban gas cooking, just ban residential heating and let the market take care of it.

Y’all just want to tear shit down to pat yourselves on the back.

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1 point

9 days ago

Definitely could do it that way. But everybody is better off if we do it in a planned way instead of leaving people to deal with that kind of a mess.

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-1 points

9 days ago

What evidence do you have that it would be cost-ineffective to pipe natural gas to only businesses? The only thing they do these days when someone opts out of using natural gas is turn off the valve at the street. The gas still flows to other businesses and neighbors. It doesn’t matter what Berkeley does because Oakland, Richmond, Hayward and every other town or city around Berkeley is not going to ban the use of natural gas. It’s a non-starter. It’s pointless to do.

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2 points

9 days ago

There has been a ton of modeling on how declining numbers of ratepayers cause methane gas prices to skyrocket. If you actually get rid of almost all the people buying it, the last few are left paying a fortune for what was once common infrastructure shared by many people.

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