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Article #623388Re: off topic All-electric homes
From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 23:53
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 23:53
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On 28/04/2018 22:11, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 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. > Leave the cooker off the UPS. Buy a microwave that uses less than 1kW. Outrages only last a few days.
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