"If we’re lucky, it might take only twice as much gas. Score one for the environment."

"If we’re lucky, it might take only twice as much gas. Score one for the environment."

Julius Sanks shared a link.Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming

"Let’s see, I can boil a pot of water on my gas stove — or I can use electricity that likely comes from a gas-fired power plant, which boils water to make steam, then puts it through a turbine, which turns an electric generator. The electricity is then put through a series of transformers and power lines, with losses at each step of the process, and it finally reaches my stove and boils the pot of water. (“Don’t fear L.A.’s ban on gas stoves. Electric appliances are the future,” editorial, June 14)
"If we’re lucky, it might take only twice as much gas. Score one for the environment."
— Steve Maas, Ph.D. electrical engineering. He was lambasting both the LA Times for their editorial and the LA City Council, which recently voted unanimously to prohibit gas stoves in new houses. The editorial, link above, is just as stupidly ignorant as he says; he goes on to whack it about induction stoves. Those pesky laws of thermodynamics.

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Editorial: Don’t fear L.A.’s ban on gas stoves. Electric appliances are the future