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Originally Posted by Tobra
Gas is the most efficient way to heat your house, cook, water heater, clothes dryer, everything
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depends on what you mean by efficiency. thermodynamically? maybe ... we are seeing power plants being able to hit some pretty seriously good efficiency numbers these days, esp with combined and stacked cycles. power plants are also much easier to keep clean than any local production would be. with thermodynamic efficiencies' close to 50%, thats better than almost anything you can do locally.
sounds like financially, and infrastructure-wise ... certainly not in this case. converting more and more to the freely available solar would save money, increase efficiency, increase robustness, and decrease infrastructure needs.