It is pointless to retrofit buildings here to convert to electric heat, while at literally the same time hundreds of new gas-powered electric plants are being built in the US because of all the demands on the grid caused by electric cars, bitcoin mining, cloud computing, AI-driven data centers and the like. At enormous cost we would be s…
It is pointless to retrofit buildings here to convert to electric heat, while at literally the same time hundreds of new gas-powered electric plants are being built in the US because of all the demands on the grid caused by electric cars, bitcoin mining, cloud computing, AI-driven data centers and the like. At enormous cost we would be shifting energy demand from direct burning of gas onto the electric grid which increasingly is based on natural gas fueled power generation.
Yes the country and the world needs to solve climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels. But feel good yet ultimately pointless measures like this ordinance will do nothing to fix the problem, only shifting a tiny bit of energy use from one natural gas based demand (heating systems) to another (electricity generated from natural gas power plants).
This is performative virtue-signaling at it’s finest. Hello city council — does anyone see the absurdity of this???
I am not an attorney. Is it even legal for a City Council to pass an ordinance demanding that property owners convert to electricity? This would include both individual homeowners and those owning rental buildings.
It is pointless to retrofit buildings here to convert to electric heat, while at literally the same time hundreds of new gas-powered electric plants are being built in the US because of all the demands on the grid caused by electric cars, bitcoin mining, cloud computing, AI-driven data centers and the like. At enormous cost we would be shifting energy demand from direct burning of gas onto the electric grid which increasingly is based on natural gas fueled power generation.
https://www.powermag.com/hundreds-of-new-gas-fired-power-units-planned-as-u-s-gas-output-soars/
Yes the country and the world needs to solve climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels. But feel good yet ultimately pointless measures like this ordinance will do nothing to fix the problem, only shifting a tiny bit of energy use from one natural gas based demand (heating systems) to another (electricity generated from natural gas power plants).
This is performative virtue-signaling at it’s finest. Hello city council — does anyone see the absurdity of this???
I am not an attorney. Is it even legal for a City Council to pass an ordinance demanding that property owners convert to electricity? This would include both individual homeowners and those owning rental buildings.
I don’t know but there is no doubt in my mind Northwestern will sue and we will find out.