{"id":20245,"date":"2024-08-13T10:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20245"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:35:27","slug":"2024-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20245","title":{"rendered":"2024-08-13 Debunking Myths: &#8220;10 Reasons All Electric Is A Bad Idea&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each point of the link is debunked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"emOMzxjSsu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npga.org\/news-resources\/top-10-reasons-all-electric-is-a-bad-idea\/\">Top 10 Reasons All-Electric Is a Bad Idea<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Top 10 Reasons All-Electric Is a Bad Idea&#8221; &#8212; NPGA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npga.org\/news-resources\/top-10-reasons-all-electric-is-a-bad-idea\/embed\/#?secret=gFRSwPHSL6#?secret=emOMzxjSsu\" data-secret=\"emOMzxjSsu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#1.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;Electric systems are awfully wasteful.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This assumes that all electrical power is generated by thermal power plants.&nbsp; Yes, 2\/3 of the energy used to heat the steam goes to waste and only one third gets to produce electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But thermal power plants &#8211; coal and gas turbine &#8211; are rapidly being replaced by Renewables &#8211; solar and wind, and battery energy storage.&nbsp; These have very low losses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#2.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;Weather makes electrical transmission even more inefficient.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice the word transmission. That&#8217;s the high power lines going from the generation source to the regional switchyard.&nbsp; But a growing amount of the electricity is being generated onsite, by rooftop solar or on canopies in parking lots.&nbsp; So there is no losses in transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#3.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;Coal-powered electricity isn&#8217;t leaving quickly enough, elevating the carbon intensity of the grid.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coal power plants are being shut down and replaced by renewables &#8211; wind and solar, which cost less than coal, natural gas or nuclear power.&nbsp; This is *not* &#8220;elevating,&#8221; this is reducing the carbon intensity of the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#4)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;Electricity simply isn&#8217;t practical for all energy needs.&nbsp; &#8230; Replacing Long haul trucking with electrical vehicles in the EU would require 10% of the continent&#8217;s power generation&#8230;&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What day failed to tell you is that the electric vehicles will be *replacing* fossil fueled vehicles.&nbsp; This means that the amount of electricity used for drilling, extracting, transporting, refining, storing, transporting and dispensing fossil fuels will no longer be needed and will go down.&nbsp; And this reduction will be greater than the increases from electric vehicles &#8211; which will be more and more powered by renewables &#8211; mostly solar &#8211; because it costs less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#5.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;Common &#8220;clean energy&#8221; sources such as biomass, carry environmental questions of their own.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the United states, less than 1% of the electricity is generated by wood (biomass).&nbsp; It is a insignificant amount compared to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#6.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;Rural and disadvantaged populations have specific reliability needs electricity can\u2019t meet.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The electricity from the grid may not meet the reliability needed.&nbsp; But when the home has rooftop solar with battery electric storage system, if the grid goes down then the solar and battery take over, giving very high reliability.&nbsp; If the electric power is needed for someone whose life depends on it, then the equipment should have its own battery backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#7.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;The grid isn\u2019t equipped to handle full-blown electrification.&#8221;&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;full-blown electrification&#8221; of the grid includes VPPs &#8211; virtual power plants, V2G &#8211; vehicle to grid, and local battery energy storage systems that will make the grid more resilient and less dependent on large scale generation.&nbsp; The &#8220;unreliability&#8221; of the grid is often caused by PSPS &#8211; public safety power shutoffs, when the electric utilities shut off areas for safety or wildfire reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#8.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;Individual buildings need energy resilience.&nbsp; If a customer &#8230; is forced to rely just on electricity for all of their energy needs \u2014 heating and cooling, food storage and preparation, transportation, etc. \u2014 then a single point of failure can interrupt all of those systems.&nbsp; &#8230;and customers without electric cars can still fill up at the gasoline station.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve addressed this above.&nbsp; With rooftop solar with battery storage, there is a backup system if the grid power goes down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customers without electric cars *cannot* fill up at the gas station if the grid is down &#8211; gas pumps rely on electric power, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#9.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;All-electric homes, on average, have greater carbon footprints.&nbsp; &#8230;&nbsp; When comparing all-electric homes with homes of comparable size and profile that use natural gas, studies find that the gas homes are responsible for about one-third fewer greenhouse gas emissions. [PDF]&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was true over a decade ago before wind and solar grew to a significant part of the electricity generation.&nbsp; Now the amount of coal has dropped and has been replaced by renewables &#8211; wind and solar power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The link to the .PDF file was 404 Not Found.&nbsp;&nbsp; As the number of homes powered by solar and wind grows, the greenhouse gas emissions is dropping to much less than the homes that use natural gas.&nbsp; Changing to renewables is doing what it&#8217;s supposed to do: lowering the greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#10.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;<strong>Customer preference doesn\u2019t lie with electricity for many applications.&nbsp;<\/strong> Consumer choice is a good thing, and the simple fact remains that for many applications requiring energy, customers prefer the efficacy and results they get with gas.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/articles\/2020\/02\/11\/stop_playing_games_with_americas_energy_future_483924.html\">Surveys show<\/a>&nbsp;that almost 70% of customers prefer natural gas for home heating, water heating and cooking.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studies show that cooking with natural gas causes more asthma and breathing problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4PP02UwlEx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npga.org\/news-resources\/top-10-reasons-all-electric-is-a-bad-idea\/\">Top 10 Reasons All-Electric Is a Bad Idea<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Top 10 Reasons All-Electric Is a Bad Idea&#8221; &#8212; NPGA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npga.org\/news-resources\/top-10-reasons-all-electric-is-a-bad-idea\/embed\/#?secret=0JlVg7PHAY#?secret=4PP02UwlEx\" data-secret=\"4PP02UwlEx\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each point of the link is debunked. Top 10 Reasons All-Electric Is a Bad Idea #1.)&nbsp; &#8220;&#8221;Electric systems are awfully wasteful.&#8221;&#8221; This assumes that all electrical power is generated by thermal power plants.&nbsp; Yes, 2\/3 of the energy used to heat the steam goes to waste and only one third gets to produce electricity. 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