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On 28 Apr 2018 21:38:05 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:

>In article <20180428221152.1544...@eircom.net>,
>Ahem A Rivet's Shot  <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
>>On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:25:34 -0400
>>Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Electricity heating has the disadvantage that if you had a local power
>>> outage you had no heat. If you had some oil or gas powered system you had
>>> it at least warm,
>>
>>	Most oil and gas heating systems need electricity to function, at
>>the very least to pump water round the radiators unless it will thermosyphon
>>well, but often to run the burner.
>>
>>> although your fridge, TV and other appliances wouldn't work.
>>
>>	Lights too.
>>
>>	I've been seriously considering UPSing my house - one consideration
>>is that the oven can take rather more than most reasonably priced inverters
>>want to handle - leave it out or pay the extra ... still thinking.
>>
>
>If you have natural gas, you can get a backup generator which will run on
>it and kick in automatically.  Of course gasoline, propane or all three
>in one box are options as well.

Those generators are costly and require maintenance.  I've thought
about getting one but it's more hassle than it's worth for the few
times that I've had a serious power outage.  Among other things the
generator gets its own load panel to which loads that are considered
"critical" are fed, which may mean a good bit of rewiring.