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Article #623391Re: off topic All-electric homes
From: JimP
Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 15:29
Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 15:29
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On 1 May 2018 06:43:35 GMT, maus <ma...@mail.com> wrote: >On 2018-04-30, Andrew Swallow <am.sw...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> 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. > >++ Depends on the weather. I've been without electricity for 2 weeks after a hurricane, and our house wasn't damaged.
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