danbert2000

danbert2000 t1_j6oaw92 wrote

Electric heating is cheaper than gas if you use heat pumps. Gas heating is not a long term strategy. Yes, the cost to switch is a problem, but if a gas furnace needs to be replaced it makes sense almost 100% of the time to switch over to a heat pump at this point. I switched, and my heating bill is the same this year whereas my neighbors all have bills that are 50% higher or even double.

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danbert2000 t1_j6e5502 wrote

Electrification is a huge part of a zero carbon future. You can make electricity without carbon. Even if this doesn't start 100% green, it can be 100% green. Steel processes with direct fuel needs will never be 100% green. Same idea behind EVs and heat pumps. You have to start somewhere, and this just creates a demand for clean energy when before it was a demand for more fossil fuels.

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danbert2000 t1_isu9izt wrote

Most of what you said is unmoored in fact. There are plenty of things that you can't repair because the companies lock their maintenance software away. Apple for one spent the last decade locking screen replacements behind onerous tools that they denied to people and businesses on their whim. John Deere kept parts from being installed in tractors unless an "authorized dealer" replaced them and they got their cut. Warranty void stickers still litter electronics even though they are unenforceable. You ignore the obvious proof that there is a problem and instead peddle what ifs and mischaracterizations of what right to repair is. If this cuts into business revenue it's only because they are currently rent seeking with their current repair schemes and the current loss is in user's expensive or artificially denied repairs. So essentially you're parroting some odd line that companies' repair revenue is more important than consumers' savings on being able to choose who repairs their product and how.

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