shavenferret said:
SvennoJ said:
Rather not. Power failures still happen plenty here in Canada (power lines are all above ground). Big storm, power outage. At least with gas you can still warm up. You can't BBQ on electric either. Plus a gas dryer is more efficient than electric.
Changing to hydrogen gas is a good option but needs a lot of infrastructure changes.
You can produce the hydrogen in home of course. Another appliance for the utility room next to water heater and central air. But it's probably more efficient to do so at industrial scale and you have far less 'leakage' in transport like you have with electricity.
(And then you still have an alternative source of heat when the power goes out) |
if i'm ever blessed enough to own a home, i'll definitely get some solar panels. |
Look for a home that has the roof South facing. Sadly our house isn't all that suited for solar panels, oriented in the least efficient way to catch the sun on the roof with a steep roof as well :/ Cut, rotate 90 degrees, paste...
We did change to a metal roof, which better helps keeping the house cool in summer. The downside of that is avalanches lol. I now have to rake the snow off the roof to prevent it building ice dams and then taking out the deck railing with huge chunks of ice flying down.
