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bintananth

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Rocinante said:
Gas is way, wayyyy better for fast temp changes, but I've gotten used to electric over the years. It's not terrible. I cook perfectly fine on one, but if I had a choice, I would choose gas.
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It's also better from an environmental standpoint because it's basically a mixture of CH4 and C2H6 with enough aromatic stinky stuff added so Nose Mk.1 can detect a leak. It's very clean burning with CO2+water - and not much else - for combustion products.

Using electricity for heat means generating that electricity elsewhere and the line losses involved with getting it to the heating element.

Electric heat (be it a furnace, stove, wall heater, &c) is usually cheaper to install because you're just upsizing wires and adding circuits as opposed to running dedicated pipes, valves, and &c which aren't used for anything but natural gas.
 
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bintananth said:
It's also better from an environmental standpoint because it's basically a mixture of CH4 and C2H6 with enough aromatic stinky stuff added so Nose Mk.1 can detect a leak. It's very clean burning with CO2+water - and not much else - for combustion products.

Using electricity for heat means generating that electricity elsewhere and the line losses involved with getting it to the heating element.

Electric heat (be it a furnace, stove, wall heater, &c) is usually cheaper to install because you're just upsizing wires and adding circuits as opposed to running dedicated pipes, valves, and &c which aren't used for anything but natural gas.
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No, it isn't. While CH4 is a clean combustion reaction, gas stovetops are horrifically wasteful, due to less control in passing that energy to the cookware. Even factoring line efficiency for remote generation isn't going to overcome the inefficiency of gas stovetops.

A gas stove may be cheaper to run, but that's because natural gas is stupid cheap. From an energy perspective, both electric and induction are massively more energy efficient.


Not that the government should be doing this. Complete overreach on the Fed's part. But realistically, we should be moving all stoves to induction from both efficiency and safety perspective (and heat pumps for home heating!).
 
bintananth

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Flintsteel said:
No, it isn't. While CH4 is a clean combustion reaction, gas stovetops are horrifically wasteful, due to less control in passing that energy to the cookware. Even factoring line efficiency for remote generation isn't going to overcome the inefficiency of gas stovetops.

A gas stove may be cheaper to run, but that's because natural gas is stupid cheap. From an energy perspective, both electric and induction are massively more energy efficient.


Not that the government should be doing this. Complete overreach on the Fed's part. But realistically, we should be moving all stoves to induction from both efficiency and safety perspective (and heat pumps for home heating!).
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If you look only at the thermal efficiency of a gas stovetop to the food compared to an electric stovetop ... yeah, it ain't great. It's also not horrible since electrical power generation tops out at about 45% thermal before thermodynamics starts stepping in and saying "this is about to melt or tear itself apart if you aren't very careful" at the generation site.

Remember: Physics has theories. Thermodynamics has laws.
 
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Scooby Doo said:
God forbid you say All Lives Matter.
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nopr you never do out loud. instead whenever someone brings up BLM you remember this and tell them to fuck off. you never vote for anything based on supporting them. you listen to the advice of Scott Adams and avoid putting your kids in the situation your parents put you in when they forced you into public school. I.E. move away, homeschool your kids, get them into charter or private schools.
 
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Scooby Doo said:
Lowkey the Bungie haters of the Destiny series kinda piss me off.


They complain about the story because it's not spoon fed to them but when it is they get insulted that they make it dumbed down.


These fucking idiots are acting like Lightfall is the final expansion of the series and are freaking out with their autistic screeching ignoring that the DLC is just an introduction to the Subclass

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Scooby Doo said:

Man half the Destiny fanbase is dick riding the ever loving fuck out of this guy and parroting his outrage and complaints.


It's low key annoying the hell out of me seeing people cry and whine everywhere involving Destiny content.


This dumbass convinced his fanbase that a minor DLC was going to be a Major story DLC and everyone's now upset because it was a simple plot


Ignoring the fact that it was never meant to be a major story DLC. I swear half the Destiny fan base are full of idiotic simpletons.
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Mostly, I'm just disappointed in Bungie's writing of Calus. I thought the ruler who'd seen an existential threat he thought his empire could never defeat and given up, wallowing in hedonism for however long he had left and trying to make the rest of his empire join him as 'mercy' rather than sacrifice everything on more militarization in what'd inevitably be a losing battle, who got couped by militarists who disagreed, was a much more interesting character concept than his changing his mind and willingly joining the Darkness. I'd have forgiven them and considered it the perfect twist if Lightfall had revealed he'd been faking all along so that the Witness gave him powers and an army and replacement body which wasn't rotten from old age and hedonism, then when he found the MacGuffin paracausal Veil, he immediately used its power to attempt to backstab the Witness and take back his empire. But it didn't.
 
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Bassoe said:
Mostly, I'm just disappointed in Bungie's writing of Calus. I thought the ruler who'd seen an existential threat he thought his empire could never defeat and given up, wallowing in hedonism for however long he had left and trying to make the rest of his empire join him as 'mercy' rather than sacrifice everything on more militarization in what'd inevitably be a losing battle, who got couped by militarists who disagreed, was a much more interesting character concept than his changing his mind and willingly joining the Darkness. I'd have forgiven them and considered it the perfect twist if Lightfall had revealed he'd been faking all along so that the Witness gave him powers and army and replacement body which wasn't rotten from old age and hedonism, then when he found the MacGuffin paracausal Veil, he immediately used its power to attempt to backstab the Witness and take back his empire. But it didn't.
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I'd have preferred if Calus joined the Coalition and settled differences with his daughter than being an expendable pawn to the Witness TBH.

It should have been Xivu being the discipline of the Witness, or at least Eramis trying to back stab and end up dying.
 
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