-15% of US homes use gas stoves, with 47 million stoves.
-Of total US natural gas consumption, 2.8% is used for residential cooking.
-Residential use of natural gas is 15% of overall usage.
-Cooking with gas thus emits .2% of US carbon emissions.
At Lloyd's costs of installing his stove:
-Converting to US dollars: $2520 to install new stove
-Extrapolated to overall US, it would cost $118 billion to save .2% of US carbon emissions
If each stove weighs 200 pounds, you'd have 9.4 billion pounds of stoves to haul away and melt down, taking further carbon emissions, not to mention the embedded emissions of making and transporting the new stoves, as well as eventually pulling out all the gas lines and recycling them, and also mining the copper for all that heavy-duty new wiring and other power supplies.
Is the the best usage of resources?
My apologies if this data is inaccurate, but I'm pressed for time today and couldn't do multiple searches. But, this conveys my general concern.
Some quick internet searching for this data:
-15% of US homes use gas stoves, with 47 million stoves.
-Of total US natural gas consumption, 2.8% is used for residential cooking.
-Residential use of natural gas is 15% of overall usage.
-Cooking with gas thus emits .2% of US carbon emissions.
At Lloyd's costs of installing his stove:
-Converting to US dollars: $2520 to install new stove
-Extrapolated to overall US, it would cost $118 billion to save .2% of US carbon emissions
If each stove weighs 200 pounds, you'd have 9.4 billion pounds of stoves to haul away and melt down, taking further carbon emissions, not to mention the embedded emissions of making and transporting the new stoves, as well as eventually pulling out all the gas lines and recycling them, and also mining the copper for all that heavy-duty new wiring and other power supplies.
Is the the best usage of resources?
My apologies if this data is inaccurate, but I'm pressed for time today and couldn't do multiple searches. But, this conveys my general concern.