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Zero-emission? What powers the magnetron?

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Zero point energy apparently.

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I'm pretty sure that's not how electricity works.

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A windmill, nigger. It comes with the kit.

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Sometimes I worry that the push for the "smart grid" and for everything to be powered by electricity is just so when the day comes, they can selectively cut off the power of dissidents and leave them completely helpless. Good luck driving away when you can't charge your electric vehicle.

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yep. your social credit score will be too low to use public charging stations too. You will be classified as a danger to society. IF you're a terry

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They gonna sklounst them terrys

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just like all the books/manuals/music etc are online. What happens when the power goes off?

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This is why I own a physical copy of De Re Metallica. It is probably the best book to own for when shit hits the fan.

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It's just that the emissions are moved to a bulk generator as opposed to a local source.

Hot water boiler heating systems provide a clean and comfortable source of building heat that will also keep room air most in the drier winter months.

The author does realize that these are typically sealed systems and don't boil water off into the air, right? I have several friends that use water heat, it's just as dry in their houses during the winter as it is in my forced-air heat residence.

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Since when are most homes heated by boilers?

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In the UK every home is.

I think almost 100% are gas though because electricity per KWh is about 6x the price as gas.

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In California there are many complete and utter morons advocating switching from natural gas to electricity for heating because "muh climate," but the current mix of electrical generation in California is such that doing so would increase CO2 emissions and increase the cost of home heating by up to 1,125% - from $1.29 per 10,000 BTU to $14.94 per 10,000 BTU.

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Virtually every old Manhattan high rise apartment building has the radiators.

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I wonder if an electric heating coil would require less energy to heat the water. I wonder what's more efficient. I bet the difference is marginal.

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A BTU is the amount of energy required to heat one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. Doesn’t matter how fast you do it, the BTU of water won’t change. Laws of conservation of energy come into play here when you talk about steam boilers and shit. You can’t put in less energy and get the same output.

The only variable that you have is how efficient the heating method is. I’d venture to say that the fagatron shit isn’t more energy efficient. It just doesn’t burn gas on location to do it’s job. Also, by the time the power leaves the electric plant and then undergoes all of the I²R losses then it’s probably not more efficient by a long shot. Of course no real quantitative analysis can be done because they didn’t include any numbers in that write up.

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Doesn’t matter how fast you do it

It does when you have 3 girls and a women trying to use the hot water all at once.

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You should teach them the joys of communal outdoor tubs. Like the Japanese. It might save you on your heating bill lol

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In that case I recommend a tankless water heater that runs on gas.

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the electricity comes from COAL FIRED PLANTS

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which will be powered byyyyyyyyyyyyyyy....

electricity.

which can be shut off.

so give the greens what they want and they have complete power over all generation and what you can do with it, and they can switch it off and the flick of a switch.

how you gonna power petrol powered backup generators when petrol is illegal?

you think these clowns are going to let you make power at home for yourself? yeah we can buy solar panels now, but theyre inefficient as fuck, and have a look at all these places that offer these 'solar power' generation schemes that let you 'put power into the grid' and 'lower your bills' - yeah no they make up that cost in the equipment installed, you are generating pissy little amounts of power that is almost never going to be a surplus to the grid, you dont get money, it costs you money in almost every application.

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This can be fixed with solar panels or a generator and a battery system.

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Solar panels don't work wheb they are covered in snow. Wtf you think that generator runs off of

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Push the snow off you lazy fuck. And the generator runs off shit that liberals can't turn off when you're bad on the internet.

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If they want to make it more efficient, instead of removing the gas and putting in microwaves, why don't they add a steam turbine into the system to generate electricity while it runs?

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What's wrong with a simple resistive element in a tub of water? 100% efficiency.

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Considering I already have an electric home and water heater, I fail to see the environmental point.

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There isn't any. Using electricity for home heat is more expensive and more polluting than using natural gas in most areas of the US.

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Certainly not the first microwave powered boiler.

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